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title: "The Preliminary Results of a Mandarin Dictation Machine Based Upon Chinese Natural Language Analysis"
authors:
  - "Lin-Shan Lee"
  - "Chiu-yu Tseng"
  - "Keh-Jiann Chen"
  - "James Huang"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/122"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0122.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "619-620"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# The Preliminary Results of a Mandarin Dictation Machine Based Upon Chinese Natural Language Analysis

Lin-Shan Lee, Chiu-yu Tseng, Keh-Jiann Chen, James Huang

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 619-620.

## Abstract

This paper describes the preliminary results of the first research effort toward a Mandarin dictation machine in the worl~ fo.r the input. of Chinese characters to computers. Considenng the special charact~stic~ of Chinese language, syllables are chosen as the basic umts for dictation The machin.e is divided into two subsystems. The first is to recog~uze the syllables using speech signal processing t~chmques. Because .every syllable .can represent many different characters With completely different meaning the second subsystem then identifies the exact characters fro~ the sylla?les and cot;ects the erro~ in syllable recognition by first forrmng a.ll P?SSible words froin the syllables then finding out one combmanon of ~e :-vords which is grammatically valid in a s~nte~ce . .The preh.mmary test results indicate that such a dicta!IOn mac:hme IS not only practically attractive, but technically achievable.