Host: Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 28, 1994
Indexes of the words in Japanese literary classics are generally arranged in a-i-u-e-o order, under which headings the words are given with various prefixes, suffixes, inflections, and so forth. Thereafter the volume, page, and line numbers of each entry are given. Very occasionally, particles, auxiliary verbs, and other associated words are also listed.
Such indexes are useful in defining where and in what context each word of a classic is used. However, if you want to know whether some particular word is always used in the same context, you must check every page on which it appeares and note with what other words it appears in conjunction. This can become a very cumbersome process for words frequently used.
The current study aimed at creating a software program that could list up words (in boldface type) in a-i-u-e-o order, together with five to six preceding and the same number of following words that revealed the context. This was achieved using our previously completed full-text database of Genji Monogatari Taisei in which all words had been identified by parts of speech.
