"Visualization of semantic relationship between onomatopoeias regarding ""sounds of things and tools"""

Abstract

Onomatopoeia can simply describe sound or voice regarding nature, state and movement of things. Onomatopoeia provides rich emotional expression for Japanese books and everyday conversation. On the other hand such Japanese onomatopoeias are difficult for Japanese learners to learn. Besides that there are few ways to learn the onomatopoeias. This study proposes a thesaurus map which can describe semantic relationship among the onomatopoeias. Our proposed method can code 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 “sounds of things and tools” to evaluate the map.