Similarities and differences among semantic behaviors of Japanese adnominal constituents

Authors:
Kyoko Kanzaki;Qing Ma;Hitoshi Isahara
Affiliations:
Communications Research Laboratory, Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Japan;Communications Research Laboratory, Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Japan;Communications Research Laboratory, Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Japan
Venue:
NAACL-ANLP-SSCNLPS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 NAACL-ANLP Workshop on Syntactic and semantic complexity in natural language processing systems - Volume 1
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper treats the classification of the semantic functions performed by adnominal constituents in Japanese, where many parts of speech act as adnominal constituents. In order to establish a formal treatment of the semantic roles, the similarities and differences among adnominal constituents, i.e. adjectives and "noun + NO (in English "of + noun")" structures, which have a broad range of semantic functions, are discussed. This paper also proposes an objective method of classifying these constructs using a large amount of linguistic data. The feasibility of this was verified with a self-organizing semantic map based on a neural network model.