Algorithm to estimate number of English translation words from Japanese source
I'm trying to come up with a way to estimate the number of English words a translation from Japanese will turn into. Japanese has three main scripts -- Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana -- and each has a different average character-to-word ratio (Kanji being the lowest, Katakana the highest). Examples: computer: コンピュータ (Katakana - 6 chara...