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Title:
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Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers.
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Author:
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Bond, Francis.; Paik, Kyonghee.
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Copyright year:
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2000 |
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Abstract:
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In this paper, we present a solution to the problem
of generating Japanese numeral classifiers using
semantic classes from an ontology. Most nouns
must take a numeral classifier when they are quantified
in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Malay and Thai. In order to select an appropriate
classifier, we propose an algorithm which associates
classifiers with semantic classes and uses
inheritance to list only those classifiers which have
to be listed. It generates sortal classifiers with an accuracy
of 81%. We reuse the ontology provided by
Goi-Taikei — a Japanese lexicon, and show that it
is a reasonable choice for this task, requiring information
to be entered for less than 6% of individual
nouns. |
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Subject:
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DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics. |
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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Conference name:
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18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING-2000 |
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School:
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School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Rights:
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© 2000 ACL. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING-2000, Association for Computational Linguistics. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/990820.990834]. |
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Version:
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Accepted version |
