Abstract
E-mail is a communication tool widely used by people of all ages on the Internet today, often in business and formal situations, especially in Japan. Moreover, Japanese E-mail communication has a set of specific rules taught using specialized guidebooks. E-mail literacy education for many Japanese students is typically provided in a traditional, yet inefficient lecture-based way. We propose a system to support Japanese students in writing E-mails to superiors (teachers, job hunting representatives, etc.). We firstly make an investigation into the importance of formal E-mails in Japan, and what is needed to successfully write a formal E-mail. Next, we develop the system with accordance to those rules. Finally, we evaluated the system twofold. The results, although performed on a small number of samples, were generally positive, and clearly indicated additional ways to improve the system.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.coling-demos.16
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Editors:
- Michal Ptaszynski, Bartosz Ziolko
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 87–92
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-demos.16
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-demos.16
- Cite (ACL):
- Kenji Ryu and Michal Ptaszynski. 2020. Epistolary Education in 21st Century: A System to Support Composition of E-mails by Students to Superiors in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 87–92, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
- Cite (Informal):
- Epistolary Education in 21st Century: A System to Support Composition of E-mails by Students to Superiors in Japanese (Ryu & Ptaszynski, COLING 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/bionlp-24-ingestion/2020.coling-demos.16.pdf