Pitarie: Picture book search with interdisciplinary approach

Abstract

NTT Communication Science Laboratories has developed a search system called Pitarie that can find just the right picture book to match a child's interests and developmental stage. Pitarie has been developed with an interdisciplinary approach; we incorporate knowledge of developmental psychology as well as the latest advances in the research fields of similarity search and natural language processing. The unique functions of Pitarie realized by the fusion of human science and information science are presented here along with the elemental technologies.