1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Research on Text Structure Analysis Method for Technical Writeng Support System

Research Project

Project/Area Number	05680302
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Intelligent informatics
Research Institution	Kyushu Institute of Technogy
Principal Investigator	NAKAMURA Junichi Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Assosicate Professor, 情報工学部, 助教授 (30164304)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	YOSHIDA Kyoko Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Instructor, 情報工学部, 助手 (90240910)
Project Period (FY)	1993 – 1994
Keywords	Natural Language / Text Structure Analysis / Techinical Writing / User interface
Research Abstract	A technical writing support system in Japanese has been developed. This system adopts text structure analysis technique similar to the story grammar approach. It has a user interface to show the result of analysis usable to revise technical documents. This ststem is one solution for problems in natural language processing systems : failure of amalysis and ambiguity. In this research, three modules of the system are developed : sentence feature extractor based on clue expressions, text structire analyzer using a chart parser, and user interface on NEmacs(Japanese version of GNU Emacs). Evaluation of the system showed the feasibility of this method.