Introduction to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Information Processing and Access for Japanese

摘要

This Special Issue of ACM TALIP features recent advances in information processing and access for Japanese. While TALIP has already been recognized as a representative journal covering Asian language information processing, the number of submissions related to Japanese language processing has been limited compared with language processing of other Asian languages. One of the reasons could be that there are already several publication sources for work on Japanese language processing in Japan. Since Japanese is one of major Asian languages and shares various characteristics with other languages, it is important to promote more publications on Japanese language processing from researchers in Japan through more internationally accessible channels.