Learning Winespeak from Mind Map of Wine Blogs

نویسندگان

  • Sachio Hirokawa
  • Brendan Flanagan
  • Takahiko Suzuki
  • Chengjiu Yin
چکیده

When faced with complex situations, it can often be hard to put into words and accurately express it appropriately. This becomes increasingly difficult when specialist expressions are required that are not used in everyday language. The problem is faced when trying to express in words to another person the wine that you just drank, or a wine that you want to drink to a waiter at a restaurant or shop assistant. It requires the expression in words of numerous senses including complex flavors, smells, colors, and personal emotion that is felt. These expressions are often subjective, with different people having using different expressions for the same wine. In this paper, we propose the use of wine related expressions collected from the internet and clustered to generate mind maps.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014