Research on Phonetic Indexing Interface in Xinhua Dictionary Based on Differences of English and Chinese Letters

Abstract

Xinhua Dictionary is an indispensable reference book in Chinese primary school teaching. However, through observation, it is found that due to the different pronunciations of English and Chinese letters, elementary school students who are beginners in language use the order of English capital letters as the phonetic index order. When using a Chinese character dictionary, phonetic confusion is easy to occur, which affects the retrieval efficiency. Based on the above questions, this paper combines the literature of linguistics and psychology to conduct an in-depth analysis around people, products and usage scenarios. A comparative study of letters and pronunciations that are easily confused between Chinese and English was conducted to explore the regularity of phonetic confusion. Experiment design was carried out on the preliminary summary of confusing phonetic sounds, to evaluate the prevalence of phonetic confusion problems, and to obtain pronunciations with higher confusion frequency. Integrate design elements and propose reasonable design solutions. At the same time, the redesign and usability test of the dictionary sequence retrieval interface are carried out. It is hoped that the research will shed light on the design improvement of user search interfaces in dictionaries and other reference books.