Designing and buildung a Japanese controlled language for the automotive domain. Toward the development of a writing assistant tool.

By September 7, 2022,
Page 409-422
Author Takahiro Makino, Rei Miyata, Seo Sungwon, Satoshi Sato
Title Designing and buildung a Japanese controlled language for the automotive domain. Toward the development of a writing assistant tool.
Abstract In this paper, we propose a controlled language for authoring technical documents and report the status of its development, while maintaining a specific focus on the Japanese automotive domain. To reduce writing variations, our controlled language not only defines approved and unapproved lexical elements but also prescribes their preferred location in a sentence. It consists of components of a) case frames, b) case elements, c) adverbial modifiers, d) sentence-­ending functions, and e) connectives, which have been developed based on the thorough analyses of a large­scale text corpus of automobile repair manuals. We also present our prototype of a writing assistant tool that implements word substitution and reordering functions, incorporating the constructed controlled language.
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Keywords Japanese controlled language, corpus-­based lexicon building, variation management, writing support tool, automotive domain
BibTex 
@inproceedings{euralex_mannheim_designing_2022,
address = {Mannheim},
title = {Designing and {Buildung} a {Japanese} {Controlled} {Language} for the {Automotive} {Domain}. {Toward} the {Development} of a {Writing} {Assistant} {Tool}.},
isbn = {978-3-937241-87-6},
shorttitle = {Euralex (2022)},
url = {},
language = {eng},
booktitle = {Dictionaries and {Society}.  {Proceedings} of the {XX} {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}},
publisher = {IDS-Verlag},
author = {Makino, Takahiro and Miyata, Rei and Sungwon, Seo and Sato, Satoshi},
editor = {Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette and Engelberg, Stefan and Möhrs, Christine and Storjohann, Petra},
year = {2022},
pages = {409--422},
}
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