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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: japanese word processing and NN
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Date: 15 Jan 90 19:43:57 GMT
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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.

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	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com