tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Capturing Errors in Written Chinese Words"

A collection of 3208 reported errors of Chinese words were analyzed. Among which, involved rarely used character, and were assigned common classifications of their causes by human subjects. In particular, 80% of the errors observed in writings of middle school students were related to the pronunciations and 30% were related to the compositions of words. Experimental results show that using intuitive Web-based statistics helped us capture only about 75% of these errors. In a related task, the Web-based statistics are useful for recommending incorrect characters for composing test items for "incorrect character identification" tests about 93% of. | Capturing Errors in Written Chinese Words Chao-Lin Liu1 Kan-Wen Tien2 Min-Hua Lai3 Yi-Hsuan Chuang4 Shih-Hung Wu5 1-4National Chengchi University 5Chaoyang University of Technology Taiwan 1chaolin 296753027 395753023 494703036 @ 5shwu@ Abstract A collection of 3208 reported errors of Chinese words were analyzed. Among which involved rarely used character and were assigned common classifications of their causes by human subjects. In particular 80 of the errors observed in writings of middle school students were related to the pronunciations and 30 were related to the compositions of words. Experimental results show that using intuitive Web-based statistics helped us capture only about 75 of these errors. In a related task the Web-based statistics are useful for recommending incorrect characters for composing test items for incorrect character identification tests about 93 of the time. 1 Introduction Incorrect writings in Chinese are related to our understanding of the cognitive process of reading Chinese . Leck et al. 1995 to our understanding of why people produce incorrect characters and our offering corresponding remedies . Law et al. 2005 and to building an environment for assisting the preparation of test items for assessing students knowledge of Chinese characters . Liu and Lin 2008 . Chinese characters are composed of smaller parts that can carry phonological and or semantic information. A Chinese word is formed by Chinese characters. For example M Singapore is a word that contains three Chinese characters. The left L and the right part of respectively carry semantic and phonological information. Evidences show that production of incorrect characters are related to either phonological or the semantic aspect of the characters. In this study we investigate several issues that are related to incorrect characters in Chinese words. In Section 2 we present the sources of the reported errors. In Section 3 we analyze the causes