Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Tessei Kobayashi

Sanae Fujita

Takashi Hattori

Masafumi Matsuda

Yoshinari Shirai

Yasue Kishino

Provided is an invention for efficiently searching for books used in training to reduce metathesis. A book search database storage unitstores a book search database in which information identifying a book, information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for a mora character notation pair appearing in forward order in the book, and information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for the mora character notation pair appearing in reverse order are associated with each other. A display unitdisplays a book search screen including a correctly pronounced phrase input region and an incorrectly pronounced phrase input region. A subject pronunciation designation unitdetermines two mora character notations and a proximity number to use as search conditions based on an input of the correctly pronounced phrase input region and an input of the incorrectly pronounced phrase input region. A subject book information generation unitgenerates search results including information regarding books matching the search conditions from the book search database.

Book search apparatus, book search database generation apparatus, book search method, book search database generation method, and program

An index value assignment device comprises: a selection unit that prompts a user to select, from a sentence, one or more words that the user feels to have a same degree of a predetermined index value with respect to one or more first words for which the index value is known; a validation unit that validates the selection result by the user on a basis of the index value of a second word for which the index value is known from among the one or more words included in the selection result; and a determination unit that determines the index value with respect to a third word for which the index value is unknown from among the one or more words selected by the user, on a basis of the index value of the first word according to the selection result for which the selection result is determined to be valid. Consequently, the efficiency of assigning word familiarity is increased.

Index value giving apparatus, index value giving method and program

Provided is a technique for effectively searching for a book for an articulation disordered-child to use in practice. A search condition setting unitsets a search condition for a speech sound in accordance with a selection state of kana symbol buttons disposed in a book search screen, the kana symbol buttons corresponding one-to-one to kana symbols indicating respective speech sounds. A search unitsearches for a book in which a desired speech sound appears, in accordance with the search condition. A book search screen includes at least one of a Japanese syllabary button group in which the kana symbol buttons are classified as vowels or consonants, and an articulation button group in which the kana symbol buttons are classified by articulatory organ and articulation manner.

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