Kiwi: A Multilingual Usage Consultation Tool based on Internet Searching
Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii
We present a usage consultation tool based on Internet search. When a
user enters a string of words that he wants to find the usage for, the
system sends a query to the search engine to obtain a corpus about the
string. The corpus is statistically analyzed and results are
displayed. As the system uses neither language-dependent analysis nor
initial data, queries can be made in any language, even languages for
which there are no well-established analytical methods. Also, since
the corpus is dynamically obtained from the search engines, the usages
provided to the user are always up to date. Kiwi can fill in the
missing parts of the collocations frequently used by native speakers.