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  <Title>A SELF-LEARNING SYSTEM FOR THE CHINESE CHARACTERS</Title>
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5. Further development
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Short-term steps: We are currently initiating the first model validation. Then are planned both a moderate quantitative, and a qualitative, extension of the system. We will first enlarge the character set to about 300 units, while monitoring both systematic assembly cost, and system efficiency measurements.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Qualitatively, the complementary properties in the character base will be completed, and the phonetics will be voiced. Next to be worked on, in the prototype, are a session journal manager, and the interactive character identification and selection function.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In the future: A possible trend leads towards a system of formative use, with a real scale character base and ergonomic enrichment.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> On another line for evolution, the system is a basis towards exploring knowledge based architectures, which then incorporate objects and functional handlers inherited from the design of Intelligent Information Retrieval  The project focuses on characters only, yet a vast field of investigation for foreigners (and one of practice and review, for native users). Moreover, extending the system capability to word formation, then to structural or pragmatic views on the language itself, would undoubtedly require much dedicated work on the language didactics.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> It would be of interest however, in order to confirm or to infirm Heisig's hypothesis, to experience different practice strategies on an adequate version of tim system, and to value whether one better teams characters while setmrating their study from that of the language, or while merging them.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> A rewarding aspect lies in the scopes of future system developments: a realistic and versatile pedagogic use on widely accessible micro-stations, as well as a contribution to stepwise modelling of built-in intelligence, for Computer Based Learnig Systems; and last, in the attempt to develop tools for giving larger access to Chinese characters - a vehicle for communication between over one billion people - in the frame of intercultural development.</Paragraph>
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