An automated Chinese text processing system (ACCESS): user-friendly interface and feature enhancement.

Suen Tow Sunny.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67).Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1. --- ACCESS with an Extendible User-friendly X/Chinese Interface --- p.4Chapter 1.1. --- System requirement --- p.4Chapter 1.1.1. --- User interface issue --- p.4Chapter 1.1.2. --- Development issue --- p.5Chapter 1.2. --- Development decision --- p.6Chapter 1.2.1. --- X window system --- p.6Chapter 1.2.2. --- X/Chinese toolkit --- p.7Chapter 1.2.3. --- C language --- p.8Chapter 1.2.4. --- Source code control system --- p.8Chapter 1.3. --- System architecture --- p.9Chapter 1.4. --- User interface --- p.10Chapter 1.5. --- Sample screen --- p.13Chapter 1.6. --- System extension --- p.14Chapter 1.7. --- System portability --- p.18Chapter 2. --- Study on Algorithms for Automatically Correcting Characters in Chinese Cangjie-typed Text --- p.19Chapter 2.1. --- Chinese character input --- p.19Chapter 2.1.1. --- Chinese keyboards --- p.20Chapter 2.1.2. --- Keyboard redefinition scheme --- p.21Chapter 2.2. --- Cangjie input method --- p.24Chapter 2.3. --- Review on existing techniques for automatically correcting words in English text --- p.26Chapter 2.3.1. --- Nonword error detection --- p.27Chapter 2.3.2. --- Isolated-word error correction --- p.28Chapter 2.3.2.1. --- Spelling error patterns --- p.29Chapter 2.3.2.2. --- Correction techniques --- p.31Chapter 2.3.3. --- Context-dependent word correction research --- p.32Chapter 2.3.3.1. --- Natural language processing approach --- p.33Chapter 2.3.3.2. --- Statistical language model --- p.35Chapter 2.4. --- Research on error rates and patterns in Cangjie input method --- p.37Chapter 2.5. --- Similarities and differences between Chinese and English typed text --- p.41Chapter 2.5.1. --- Similarities --- p.41Chapter 2.5.2. --- Differences --- p.42Chapter 2.6. --- Proposed algorithm for automatic Chinese text correction --- p.44Chapter 2.6.1. --- Sentence level --- p.44Chapter 2.6.2. --- Part-of-speech level --- p.45Chapter 2.6.3. --- Character level --- p.47Conclusion --- p.50Appendix A Cangjie Radix Table --- p.51Appendix B Sample Text --- p.52Article 1 --- p.52Article 2 --- p.53Article 3 --- p.56Article 4 --- p.58Appendix C Error Statistics --- p.61References --- p.6

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