Co-occurrences of antonymous adjectives and their contexts
Computational Linguistics
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Chinese antonym pairs pattern differently than antonyms in English. The opposites in a Chinese antonym pair often co-occur in a sentence. In a phenomenon unique to Chinese, most antonym pairs provide a good basis for the formation of four-character phrases. The opposites in a pair can usually be interpolated by an arbitrary number of characters to form new larger collocations, in such a way that the same number of characters precedes or follows each element of the antonym pair to keep the new collocation symmetric. All compounds and phrases with Chinese antonym pairs have the expanded form of a+X+b+!X, where !X denotes the opposite of X, a and b are the interpolated elements having the same character length. In our work, we characterized patterning of the interpolated elements and analyzed typical interpolations of one character in canonical Chinese antonym pairs, and identified the patterns involved in the separation and linkage of the antonym pairs.