... Use of Mutual Information Based Character Clusters in Dictionary-less Morphological Analysis of Japanese Hideki Kashioka, Yasuhiro Kawata, Yumiko Kinjo, Andrew Finch and Ezra W. ... The use of information on character sorts, however, mitigates this difficulty. This paper presents our method of incorporating character cluster- ing based on mutual information into Decision- ... being basically written in a 26- character alphabet, the domain of possible characters appearing in an average Japanese text is a set involving tens of thousands of characters, 658 2.1 Character...