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NAZOKAKE, Japanese word plays, has three kinds of structures. This paper describes a system that generates NAZOKAKE words based on one of three structures, which considers the meaning relation between word s and pronunciations of words. When a theme is inputted to the present system, some NAZOKAKE words are chosen from database consisting of a set of words, their pronunciations, related words and their relation degrees. This paper also describes the experime nts in which the range of relation degree is determined and subjects evaluate generated NAZOKAKE words. The experimental results show that the consideration of the range of relation degree is useful for generation of funny NAZOKAKE words and that understan dable and unexpected words can be generated as NAZOKAKE words
