Chinese Input System With Artificial Intelligence

There are. already a variety of Chinese Language Processing Systems commercially available around the world, of which the main d i v e r g e n c e i s p r o b a b l y i n the i n p u t approaches o f Ch inese c h a r a c t e r s . But due t o t he f o l l o w i n g two f a c t s none of the c u r r e n t approaches cou ld be t a k e n f o r an u n i v e r s a l l y acknowledged scheme, the f i r s t f a c t i s t h a t t he t o t a l number o f Ch inese c h a r a c t e r s i s immense and the second and perhaps more c r i t i c a l f a c t i s the t o p o l o g i c a l s t r u c t u r e s o f Chinese c h a r a c t e r s a r e r a t h e r s o p h i s t i c a t e d . C o n s i d e r i n g t h a t Ch inese P h o n e t i c Alphabe t (CPA) i s g a i n i n g on Chinese p u p i l s and s t u d e n t s ( i n c l u d i n g f o r e i g n s t u d e n t s s t u d y i n g i n Chins )e C o n s i d e r i n g a l s o t h a t CPA i s supposed t o be used as an i n t e r n a t i o n a l t r a n s c r i p t i o n f o r Chinese c h a r a c t e r s , t he a u t h o r has proposed a new inpu t approach t o i n p u t Ch inese language t o a computer i n t he l i g h t of AI t h e o r y and p r a c t i c e w i t h i t s p r o t o t y p e J u s t b e i n g implement on a mic rocompu te r system in our laboratories. This new Chinese Input System will sex~e as one of the subsystems of a comprehensive Chinese Language Computer-Aided Instruction System for teaching foreign s t u d e n t s oh o t~ campus t h e HUAHAN sys t em . Working w i t h our Chinese Inpu t System peop le can i n p u t Ch inese t e x t by t y p i n g the c o r r e s p o n d i n g p h o n e t i c symbols o f each Ch inese word t h rough an o r d i n a r y keyboa rd . E v e n t u a l l y t he original Chlnes% text will be obtained on the Chinese ORT screen or on the harcopy th rough Chinese p r i n t e r .