Japanese Short Answer Grading for Japanese Language Learners Using the Contextual Representation of BERT by Dyah Lalita Luhurkinanti, Prima Dewi Purnamasari, Takashi Tsunakawa, Anak Agung Putri Ratna

“…The best Pearson’s correlation for grading with similarities is obtained with the Tohoku BERT Base. The use of hiragana-kanji conversion improves the correlation to 0.615 for BERT and 0.593 for SBERT but does not show much improvement for RoBERTa. …”
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Word Processing Is Faster than Picture Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease by Kenichi Meguro, Yumi Takahashi, Masahiro Nakatsuka, Jiro Oonuma, Keiichi Kumai, Mari Kasai, Satoshi Yamaguchi

“…Ten pictures and 10 corresponding Japanese Hiragana words were presented arbitrarily for 20 and 300 ms on the monitor screen which were correctly named at the usual confrontation setting (i.e., semantic memory preserved). …”
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