The comparative study of inductive reasoning between Japanese and Chinese based on a statistical analysis of Japanese and Chinese corpora

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06637
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Toho University
• Principal Investigator: ZHANG Yujie 東邦大学, 理学部, 博士研究員 (70759894)
• Research Collaborator: KAMINISHI Hidekazu
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 帰納的推論 / 計算モデル / 比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to compare the inductive reasoning between Japanese and Chinese using computational models based on a statistical analysis of Japanese and Chinese corpora. Firstly, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale language data including not only the relationship between nouns and verbs but also the relationship between nouns and adjectives in Chinese and Japanese, we constructed computational models of inductive reasoning of both languages with higher accuracy. Secondly, using psychological experiment, we verified the validity of the models. Furthermore, through the comparison of computational models’ simulation for the same input, we examined the commonality and differences of culture and social system in the background of both languages, and proposed a new methodology of cultural comparison.

Free Research Field

推論、言語処理、認知科学