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How to preserve and make use of ancient Chinese characters is not only a mission to contemporary scientists but is also a technical challenge. This paper proposes a feasible solution to enable character collection, management, and access on the Internet. Its advantage lies in a unified representation for encoded and uncoded characters that provide a visual convenient and efficient retrieval method that does not require new users to have any prior knowledge about ancient Chinese characters. We also design a system suitable for describing the relationships between ancient Chinese characters and contemporary ones. As the implementation result, a website is established for public access to ancient Chinese characters.
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Lu, X., Tang, Y., Tang, Z., Gao, Y., Zhang, J. (2013). Structure-Based Web Access Method for Ancient Chinese Characters. In: Zhou, G., Li, J., Zhao, D., Feng, Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. NLPCC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 400. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41644-6_8
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