SOUND SYMBOLISM WORD/PHYSICAL FEATURE INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SOUND SYMBOLISM WORD/PHYSICAL FEATURE INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD

摘要

Information can be provided upon quantitatively associating a sound symbolism word and a physical feature. An input unit configured to input a sound symbolism word; a morpheme analyzing unit configured to analyze a phonemic element included in the sound symbolism word; a physical feature estimating unit configured to estimate a physical feature value corresponding to the sound symbolism word based on a phonemic physical feature database defining a correlation between a phonemic element and a physical feature value, with respect to the phonemic element included in the sound symbolism word; and a presenting unit configured to present the estimated physical feature value, are included.