Reading comprehension test of simplified Japanese in the trial web service of NEWS WEB EASY

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  • やさしい日本語ニュースの公開実験サイト「NEWS WEB EASY」の評価実験

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We started the trial news service in easy Japanese on the web in April 2012. In this paper, we firstly report the features of our easy Japanese that is used in the trial service "NEWS WEB EASY." We then report the reading comprehension test that were conducted on both foreigners (Kanji and non-Kanji group) and children (elementary school students and junior high school students). We measured the correct ratio, give-up ratio and answering time of the test in the original news scripts and the easy translation. The correct ratios of the tests with the easy news scripts were significantly higer in all of the subject groups than the tests with the original scripts. This showed the basic effectiveness of easy Japanese. The detailed analysis revealed that easy Japanese had improved the news understanding in the Kanji-group foreigners and contributed to make the non-Kanji group foreigners read through the news scripts. It also revealed that easy Japanese had improved news understanding of the elementary school students. The junior high school students showed high correct ratio even with the original news scripts.

Journal

  • IPSJ SIG Notes

    IPSJ SIG Notes 2012 (9), 1-9, 2012-11-15

    Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

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  • CRID
    1573105977679578368
  • NII Article ID
    110009486720
  • NII Book ID
    AN10115061
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • CiNii Articles

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