C-CAT(Character-Component Analysis Toolkit)是一個輔助心理學者探討中文閱讀歷程時,根據中文字或中文字部件的特性,設計實驗材料的電腦軟體(Lo & Hue, 2008)。本研究旨在擴充並改進C-CAT處理中文字及其部件的性能。這個增進版軟體(C-CAT2)擴充了原本的文字處理功能,使其不但能夠分析正體中文字外,也能夠分析簡體中文字。除此之外,C-CAT2也容許使用者根據研究的需求,輸入自訂的字頻常模。本研究也邀請了一組大學生,請其將200個中文字拆解為部件,然後再根據拆解的結果,修正軟體內建的拆字規則,使得該規則更接近一般中文讀者對於中文字組成部件的看法。
The aim of this work was to upgrade C-CAT (Character-Component Analysis Toolkit) which was designed to assist researchers in constructing experimental materials using Chinese characters (Lo & Hue, 2008). The new features built in the new version of the software (C-CAT2) include (1) an user interface which can display traditional and simplified Chinese and English, (2) a frequency norm of simplified Chinese characters used in the mainland China, and (3) a module which allows a user to incorporate any character frequency norm into the software. Moreover, a task of decomposing Chinese characters into constructing components was designed, and a group of college students were asked to perform the task. The way that the participants decomposed the stimulus characters was analyzed, and used to construct character decomposing rules in C-CAT2.