Semantic analysis of Japanese noun phrases: a new approach to dictionary-based understanding

Authors:
Sadao Kurohashi;Yasuyuki Sakai
Affiliations:
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan;Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Venue:
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Year:
1999

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Abstract

This paper presents a new method of analyzing Japanese noun phrases of the form N1 no N2. The Japanese postposition no roughly corresponds to of, but it has much broader usage. The method exploits a definition of N2 in a dictionary. For example, rugby no coach can be interpreted as a person who teaches technique in rugby. We illustrate the effectiveness of the method by the analysis of 300 test noun phrases.