Otaku Subculture Character in Japanese Poetry Anthology Otaku Senryu

Otaku for Queer Theory and Media Theory

Transcultural otaku: Japanese representations of fandom and representations of Japan in anime/manga fan cultures

“Otaku is a Japanese word coined during the eighties, it is used to describe fanatics that have an obsessive interest or hobby... The Japanese think of otaku the same way most people think of nerds sad and socially inept. Western Anime fans often use the word to describe anime and manga fans, except with more enthusiastic tones than the Japanese.” (http://www.thip.co.uk/work/Competition2/what.h...

Sub-character Neural Language Modelling in Japanese

In East Asian languages such as Japanese and Chinese, the semantics of a character are (somewhat) reflected in its sub-character elements. This paper examines the effect of using subcharacters for language modeling in Japanese. This is achieved by decomposing characters according to a range of character decomposition datasets, and training a neural language model over variously decomposed chara...

Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Introduction This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC822] and network news [RFC1036] messages in several Japanese networks. It was first specified by and used in JUNET [JUNET]. The encoding is now also widely us...

Chinese Character Expansion for Retrieving Japanese Paraphrases

This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi characters based on an ordinary thesaurus defining relations between words. The local analysis method calculates similarity of Kanzi characters based on a semantic class to which words in a query belong, in contrast, the...