Characters and Computers

Contents

Victor H. Mair

Preface: Building the Future of Information Processing in East Asia Demands Facing linguistic and Technological Reality

Yongquan Liu

Difficulties in Chinese Information Processing and Ways to Their Solution

ZHOU Youguang

Intrinsic Features of Chinese Language as Applied in Word Processing on Computers

YIN Binyong

Pinyin-to-Chinese Character Computer Conversion Systems and the Realization of Digraphia in China

QIAN Feng

A Synopsis of CPSG --Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar

Zhiwei Feng

Complex Features in the Description of Chinese Language

Apollo Wu

Enhanced Hanyu Pinyin Input Accuracy with a Skewed Tone-Indication Approach

Liqing Zhang

Pinyin for Typesetting?

John S. Rohsenow and Edward Zawacki

Formatting a Chinese-English Dictionary on Computer

Keith Vander Linden, Zhihua Long, and Liang Tao

Chinese Zero Anaphora in Translation: A Preliminary System

Wei Zhang and Zhigang Cao

Some Dynamic Control Methods for Improving Quality in a Phoneme-Based Formant Synthesis System

Robert M. Hartwell

A Computer-Based Comprehensive Analysis of Medieval Chinese Social and Economic History

P. M. Thompson

Chinese Text Input and Corpus Linguistics

J. Marshall Unger

Minimum Specifications for Japanese and Chinese Alphanumeric Workstations

Hisao Yamada

Is Logography a Better Writing System?

Won L. Chung

Hangeul and Computing

James T. Caldwell

Unicode: A Standard International Character Code for Multilingual Information Processing