Ascertaining and Graphically Representing the Logical Structure of Japanese Essays

• ISHIOKA Tsunenori

  The National Center for University Entrance Examinations

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 日本語小論文の論理構成の把握とその図式表現

Abstract

To more accurately assess the logical structure of Japanese essays, I have devised a technique that uses end-of-sentence modality and demonstrative pronouns referencing earlier paragraphs as new indicators of structure in addition to conjunctive expressions which have hitherto often used for Japanese as well as for European languages. It is hoped that this will yield better results because conjunctive expressions are intentionally avoided in Japanese. I applied this technique to the editorial and commentary (Yoroku) columns of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and used it to represent the structure and development of the arguments made by these articles in the form of constellation diagrams which are used in the field of statistics. As a result, I found that this graph is useful in that it enables the overall distribution to be ascertained, and allows the temporal changes in the logical structure of the data in question to be ascertained.

Journal

• Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

  Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 23 (5), 303-309, 2008

  The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Keywords

• constellation graph
• information compilation
• modality
• natural language processing
• visualization

Details

• CRID: 1390001205107044224
• NII Article ID: 130000098241
• DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.23.303
• ISSN: 13468030
• ISSN: 13460714
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjsai/23/5/23_5_303/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • Crossref
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed