Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers
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...
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| author | Bond, Francis. Paik, Kyonghee. |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/923472020-03-07T12:10:36Z Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers Bond, Francis. Paik, Kyonghee. School of Humanities and Social Sciences International Conference on Computational Linguistics (18th : 2000 : Saarbrücken, Germany) DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics 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. Accepted version 2011-06-13T08:08:16Z 2019-12-06T18:21:44Z 2011-06-13T08:08:16Z 2019-12-06T18:21:44Z 2000 2000 Conference Paper Bond, F., & Paik, K. (2000). Re-using an ontology to generate numeral classifiers. Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING-2000,90-96. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92347 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6827 10.3115/990820.990834 155594 en © 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]. 7 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics Bond, Francis. Paik, Kyonghee. Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| title | Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| title_full | Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| title_fullStr | Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| title_short | Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| title_sort | reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92347 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6827 |
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