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14/5/07 17:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyOy. Someone just threw a tennis ball inside the library. I used to be concerned about being a stereotypically disapproving librarian; now, I confiscate the ball.
The fatal flaw in my kanji game reveals itself: the kanji recognition is really, really generous. If I'm stumped, and I go, 'oh, I think it looks vaguely like this, doesn't it?' it'll give it to me, eight times out of ten. And I know that the graders for the kanji kentei won't. They will grade you wrong if you put a straight line in place of a straight line with a little flip at the end. Or so my test-prep books assure me. I can work around it-- I can write down the ones I only vaguely know, and practice writing them on paper later.
This is not surprising. I imagine that any kanji-recognition system with current technology will be either too generous or too persnickety or both at the same time. If anything, I'm astonished that the technology is as good as it is.
The fatal flaw in my kanji game reveals itself: the kanji recognition is really, really generous. If I'm stumped, and I go, 'oh, I think it looks vaguely like this, doesn't it?' it'll give it to me, eight times out of ten. And I know that the graders for the kanji kentei won't. They will grade you wrong if you put a straight line in place of a straight line with a little flip at the end. Or so my test-prep books assure me. I can work around it-- I can write down the ones I only vaguely know, and practice writing them on paper later.
This is not surprising. I imagine that any kanji-recognition system with current technology will be either too generous or too persnickety or both at the same time. If anything, I'm astonished that the technology is as good as it is.