[Freecats-Dev] japanese etc.

[suzume]

> For instance, for Japanese, Jean-Christophe Helary seems the perfect
> candidate, and Julien Poireau, who studied this language for some 
> time, and
> of course Yves Champollion (who also speaks Japanese at home) could 
> help him
> in this task. I believe Julien is eager to start a topic about 
> Japanese,
> he's been thinking about it for some time.


well, i am not sure i am a candidate for anything but, well, if i know 
what the task is about i can consider it :)

right now i have a few books on japanese linguistics here at home. i 
left a lot of them in france, especially all the ones about computer 
processing of the japanese language. note that i never read them before 
coming though :(

they are the "travaux du groupe de linguistique japonaise, universite 
de paris 7" and i believe they are now a little out dated anyway. the 
group did not publish anything that i am aware of since the middle of 
the 90's.

besides, i have absolutely no idea about the basics of tm theory, the 
only thing i know is roughly that the bigger the processed string is 
the more accurate will be the match, see how rough it is ?

i'd like to have some background in the area before starting anything 
and if anyone of you can give me pointers to online articles and/or 
affordable books (i accept second hand donations, or copies eventually 
:) i'll gladly read them. btw, such a list could be on the project page 
for would-be participants...

jc