1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Study of Library Management System for Helping the Visually Handicapped Persons

Research Project

Project/Area Number	09680405
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	情報システム学(含情報図書館学)
Research Institution	Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	MIZUNO Shun Kanazawa Inst.of Tech., Department of Tech., Professor, 工学部, 教授 (90064443)
Project Period (FY)	1997 – 1998
Keywords	Vusually Handicapped / Braille / Database / Aids for Handicapped Persons / Library Information Retrieval
Research Abstract	We have developed a system using WINDOWS of library management for the visually handicapped For the past two years, we have studied the following subject. 1. We have created the library database stored in the hard disk. We have converted library information to the signals to output with a voice synthesizer. This service is intended to provide information to the visually handicapped. 2. We have developed the computer communication system for query and answering. It is flexible enough to allow a user to ask a question about library information in the system without knowing complicated data access methods. 3. Our query and answering system accepts the simple Japanese language commands and responds in natural language. It performs syntactical processing of text and deals with semantics of processed text. 4. We have created the braille input driver which aids the visually handicapped in inputting query informations. It is available to other application programs.