Presentation about my Graduation Thesis Project, a website to teach Japanese Kanji through adaptive technologies.

1. Relate Kanji
Márcio Valença Ramos
June, 2016

2. IN CONTEXT:
THE JAPANESE
LANGUAGE

3. IN JAPANESE WE HAVE
THREE
ALPHABETS

4. Hiragana

5. Hiragana
has
46
Unique letters

6. Katakana

7. Katakana
has
46
Unique letters

8. Jouyou Kanji

9. Jouyou Kanji
has
2,136
Unique ideograms

10. ETYMOLOGY

11. ETYMOLOGY:
MUTUAL,
WORTHY
HEART
CONCEPT,
THOUGHT
EYE
TREE

12. Sometimes,
the connection is
obvious
PERSON TREE
REST,
SLEEP

13. Sometimes,
it is
not
MOON/
MEAT
BLADE BEFOREGRASS
(VARIANT)

14. READINGS

15. This is WATER
In Japanese:
MIZU

16. This is ROAD
In Japanese:
MICHI

17. This is WATER SUPPLY
In Japanese:
MIZU-MICHI???

18. NO! It is:
SUI-DOU

19. For them,
ITS LIKE
GREEK

20. When someone has
FEAR
Related to
WATER
We say:
AQUA-PHOBIA
Not:
WATER-FEAR

21. Their origin:
CHINA

22. So, the kanji alphabet has
2,136
Unique letters.
Each with:
Zero or more Japanese Readings
One or more Chinese Readings
One or more associated Concepts

23. How can
ANYONE
Ever hope to learn such a
COMPLEX
Alphabet?

24. IN CONTEXT:
THE HUMAN
BRAIN

25. In truth, we know very
LITTLE
about our own
BRAIN

26. But one thing we’re sure of:
It works as a
NETWORK

28. Thoughts and memories are
NOT ISOLATED
From each other

29. When we remember a fact,
It triggers
and
Refreshes
All our
Related Knowledge

30. Therefore, we can learn our best by
RELATING
And
ASSOCIATING
Knowledge

31. IN CONTEXT:
THE WEBSITE

32. Based on
THREE
services

33. road-way
Components: ⿺
Looks Like:
Contained by:
Road-way, Street, Journey
ON: DOU, TOU KUN: MICHI
Words with
BROWSE

34. road-way
Learn Kanji

35. road-way
Learn Kanji
Road-way, Street, Journey
Hard More or less OK Easy

36. road-way
Learn Words

37. road-way
Learn Words
Suidou
Water-Way
Hard More or less OK Easy

38. IN CONTEXT:
DATA RETRIEVAL

39. DATAMINING

40. MANUAL
CURATION

41. A JSON Graph:
{"k": "相", "c": ["木", "目"], "l": [],
"s": ["⿰"], "on": ["しょう", "そう"],
"kun": {"あい": []},
"nanori": ["あ", "い", "おう", "さ", "さが", "すけ"],
"m": "mutual, worthy", "extra_m": "inter-,
together, each other, minister of state,
councillor, aspect, phase, physiognomy",
"strokes": "9", "grade": "3",
"ic": ["想", "箱", "霜"], "r": "", "cc": []}

42. IN CONTEXT:
COMPUTER
TECHNIQUES

43. Initial ordering:
PageRankwith
Heterogeneous
Random Restarts
Weighted by
Frequency

44. Teaching efficiently:
Usage of
Two graphs
to make a
Cognitive Model

45. Etymological
Graph

46. Co-occurrence
Graph

47. IN CONTEXT:
EVALUATION
METRICS

48. Site popularity:
Unique Users per
Month

49. Site popularity:
Engagement

50. A/B Testing

51. QUESTIONS?