Primary Chinese Semantic-Phonetic Compounds Pronunciation Rules Mining and Visualization

摘要

The demand and the importance of Chinese teaching have increased continuously. In order toassist the Chinese learners in composing Chinese characters and increase their learningefficiency, Chinese components teaching method is adopted. The learners can find the cluesto both the pronunciations and the meanings of Chinese characters from Chinese components,and semantic-phonetic compounds and their phonetic components are exactly proper to be theobject. There are 80.5% semantic-phonetic compounds in the 7000 common Chinesecharacters, and most of them are formed with one semantic component and one phoneticcomponent. For the purpose of emphasizing the clues to the pronunciations of Chinesecharacters, multiple-level association rule mining was applied to discover the hierarchicalpronunciation rules of semantic-phonetic compounds. This approach found the key factorswhich have the strong connection with the pronunciations of semantic-phonetic compounds.With the knowledge of Chinese linguistics, we constructed the hierarchical Chinesepronunciation structure. The hierarchical pronunciation rules are the overview of thepronunciations of semantic-phonetic compounds and aid both Chinese learning and Chineseresearches. Therefore, they can learn the pronunciations of Chinese characters not only in thegeneral aspect but the specific aspect. These rules were represented in visualization and thesimple and memorable system was designed to assist both the Chinese literacy teaching andChinese researches.