daniel@cnam.UUCP (Daniel Lippmann) (01/13/90)
I heard that TOSHIBA designed neural-net based wordprocessor handling hiragana ,katakana and kanji. Does anybody have informations about that product or can give any pointers on technicals papers published on that matter ? daniel (daniel@cnam.cnam.fr)
steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach) (01/16/90)
I don't have a technical reference, but I saw this word processor mentioned in "Electronic Engineering Times" of Jan. 8, 1990 under the headline "Japan mounts neural push". The author of the article was R. Colin Johnson, who in turn quotes an article in the "Nikkan-Kogyo newspaper". Sorry I clipped off the page number. It says that the program uses sentence context to pick the appropriate kanji etc. character during phonetic entry, and cuts down manual selection from alternatives by 40%. The article also mentiones NN chips by Sony and intel, and a wafer-scale NN by Hitachi. Send email if you'd like a FAX copy. Guenter Steinbach gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com