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CHISE project

About the CHISE Project

The CHISE (CHaracter Information Service Environment) project attempts to collect and organize into a Knowledge-Base information about characters in the scripts of the world. A new processing environment based on this architecture is currently under development.

News

Sub Projects

The CHISE project is the aggregate of the following sub-projects.

• Development of a character processing architecture based on a character knowledge base
  • libchise
  • XEmacs CHISE
  • Ruby/CHISE
  • Perl/CHISE
    • chise_swig_perl
• Concord: development of a prototyping OOP database engine
• A TopicMaps based approach to a character dababase
• Database of features of characters
  • Database of the component structure of Chinese Characters
  • CHISE IDS Find
  • Database about variants and related characters
    • CHISE linkmap
  • Intgegration and Composition of Character Glyphs and Styles
    • makettf
• Mathematical analysis and visualation of character knowledge
• Omega/CHISE: Typesetting System in cooperation with character knowledge database
• CHISE-core / CHISE-base: integrated package and installer

CVS Repositories

/cvs/chise

[NOTICE]

Due to an organization restructuring of AIST, cvs.m17n.org will be closed at Apr 30, 2012. Now we are working to move to a new Git repositories in git.chise.org.

Git Repositories

• Gitweb

If you want to get a copy of a repository with the git command, please type:

% git clone http://git.chise.org/git/chise/<repository>.git

[Example]

% git clone http://git.chise.org/git/chise/chise-base.git

Mailing Lists

Discussion about the CHISE Project occur in the CHISE-{ja|en} mailing lists.

Anybody who would like to take part in the discussion about and development of the CHISE Project, has ideas or questions about the implementation or wishes for new features is welcome to join either the English, or the Japanese or both lists.

To become a member in the CHISE mailing, please subscribe at:

• For Japanese
• For English

Papers and Presentations

• About XEmacs UTF-2000
• About mathematical analysis of Character Information
• Other
  • “Model and Implementation of a Next Generation Multilingual Processing System” (in Japanese. October 1999)
  • WITTERN, Christian, “Non-system characters in XML documents”, in: The Frontier of Asian Information Processing [Seminar Series of the National Documentation and Information Centers in Humanities] No. 10, November 2000
  • MORIOKA Tomohiko, “The UTF-2000 Project”, in: Kanji and Information, No.2, March 2001 (in Japanese)
  • MORIOKA Tomohiko, “CHISE project &emdash; beyond the UTF-2000”, m17n2001: the Fifth International Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing and Open Source Software .
  • MORIOKA Tomohiko, “A Short Introduction to UTF-2000 Project”, the First TEI Character Set Issues Working Group (October 2001, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
  • WITTERN, Christian, “What is Digitisation?”, in: Kanji and Information, No.3, October 2001 (in Japanese).
  • MORO, Shigeki, “The meaning of 'beyond character codes'”, in: Kanji and Information, No.3, October 2001 (in Japanese).
  • WITTERN, Christian, “Some thoughts on the digitization of Kanji”, Information Technology and the Humanities [Seminar Series of the National Documentation and Information Centers in Humanities] No. 11, November 2001.
  • KAMICHI, Koichi, “Building KAGE (Kanji-font Automatic Generating Engine): The Next Gerenation of Kanji Processing beyond the Character Code Model” in Journal of Japan Association for East Asian Text Processing (JAET) No. 3, October 2002 (in Japanese).
  • MORO, Shigeki, “Software Review: CHISE Project,” in Journal of Japan Association for East Asian Text Processing (JAET) No. 3, October 2002 (in Japanese).
  • Morioka, Tomohiko, Moro, Shigeki. “Moji-sosei ni motozuku moji-shori (Character Processing based on Character Features).” IPSJ SIG Technical Report Vol. 2004, No. 58 (2004-CH-62). May, 2004. pp. 53-60. (in Japanese)

History

This project was assisted by IPA Exploratory Software Project, 2001.