ボサール アントワーヌ   Antoine Bossard
  ボサール アントワーヌ
   所属   神奈川大学  情報学部 計算機科学科
    神奈川大学大学院  理学研究科 理学専攻(情報科学領域)
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2020/12
形態種別 学術雑誌
査読 査読あり
標題 On Japanese's quasi-characters and their representation on computer systems
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Journal of Chinese Writing Systems
掲載区分国外
出版社・発行元 SAGE
巻・号・頁 4(4),pp.313-324
著者・共著者 A. Bossard
概要 [Full paper] [WoS IF=N/A, Scimago Q2]

Japanese's quasi-characters iejirushi, literally house sign, are traditional marks or logos for companies. In most cases, they involve one or a few Japanese characters, combined with other, various, non-character symbols. For different reasons as explained herein, quasi-characters have been ignored by character encodings like unifying ones like Unicode or local standards like JIS X 0213, and thus pose an information representation issue for computer systems. Building on previous works, we first conduct a detailed ontological analysis of Japanese's quasi-characters to identify their characteristics, especially their contents and structures. This is a major part of this work. Second, we derive from this ontological discussion possible representation methods for computer systems and conduct some experiments. The experimental results show significant improvements with respect to quality, practicability and flexibility over conventional approaches.
DOI 10.1177/2513850220950021