Generation of Onomatopoeia Thesaurus Map related to Human Motion

Abstract

Onomatopoeias can simply describe sounds or state of things．Therefore they are used for conversation everyday in Japan．On the other hand，one of the problems that Japanese learners face is the lack of ways to learn onomatopoeia．This study proposes a thesaurus map which can describe semantic relationship among onomatopoeias．Our proposed method can transform the onomatopeia into a 2D-vector and assign it on the map．In our experiment，we examined whether the map can describe the semantic relationship as local distance on the map．The experiment utilized onomatopoeia samples which represent “human motion” to evaluate the map.