Patent ID: 7328404

Claim:
A computer-based method to predict the reading of Japanese ideographs of at least one of Japanese words and sentences in a data store comprising the steps of: creating at least one pronunciation representation for at least one of the Japanese ideographs in the data store, wherein the pronunciation representation is created by employing data comprising base kanji readings and quasi-phonological rules, said base kanji readings comprising pronunciation and historical class information; providing a reading analyzer, said reading analyzer accepting as input at least one of the group consisting of: said base kanji readings, said quasi-phonological rules, and a training corpus; said reading analyzer further generating a decision tree, said decision tree setting forth steps for selecting one of said at least one pronunciation representation using morphological information from said at least one of Japanese words and sentences; and processing said at least one of Japanese words and sentences to provide readings of said Japanese ideographs of said at least one of Japanese words and sentences.