DocumentCode
2539345
Title
An Investigation of Chinese Selectional Preference Based on HowNet
Author
Li, Bin ; Chen, Xiaohe ; Tang, Xuri
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China
fYear
2010
fDate
13-15 Dec. 2010
Firstpage
236
Lastpage
239
Abstract
Selectional Preferences (SPs) in verb-object(VO) constructions have been widely used in NLP applications, such as WSD, metaphor comprehension etc. To estimate the number of verbs that have strong SPs, 38,119 VO types of 1,462 verbs are extracted from "Modern Chinese Cihai", tagged in How Net sense inventory with automatic tagging algorithm, The statistics indicates that only about 50% verbs have strong SPs, while another 50% have to be well analyzed within the cognitive linguistic frames.
Keywords
linguistics; natural language processing; Chinese selectional preference; HowNet sense inventory; Modern Chinese Cihai; WSD; automatic tagging algorithm; cognitive linguistic frames; metaphor comprehension; verb-object constructions; Computational linguistics; Contracts; Dictionaries; Entropy; Pragmatics; Semantics; Tagging; selectional preference; semantic class; semantic feature; verb-object;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC), 2010 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8891-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-7695-4281-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICGEC.2010.65
Filename
5715413
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