Japanese names for people occupy an unusual niche in that seeing a written name doesn’t mean you’ll know how to pronounce it. Furthermore, hearing a name doesn’t mean you’ll know how to write it — even if you are a native Japanese speaker! How come? Let’s start with a quick overview of written Japanese. Japanese, […]
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Fundamentals of understanding, translating and matching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean names
When we talk about cross-lingual name matching between English and Japanese, it’s pretty straightforward, and pretty obvious which name is in English and which in Japanese. This applies to any set of names written in different scripts: Arabic to Cyrillic, Devanagari to Latin, etc. However, differentiating between names written in the same script, such as […]
Connecting to Asia with Rosette API
Latest 1.5 API release renews commitment to global data analytics We kicked off 2017 with some major updates to Rosette API (version 1.5). There are lots of new features to play with, so we’re breaking down the key updates in a series of blog posts to share with our awesome users. One common thread among […]
Rosette API asks, “お元気ですか?”
Or, How are you feeling? Kon’nichiwa, dear readers! The Rosette development team is thrilled to bring you our beta launch of Japanese sentiment analysis in Rosette API 1.5! Sentiment analysis 101 Sentiment analysis is the automation of recognizing and scoring attitudes, opinions, and emotions in unstructured text. It allows you to quickly determine whether an […]