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Morphological constructions and derivation of senses and part-of-speeches for Chinese compounds
中文複合詞的構詞及其語意和詞性衍生規律
You-Shan Chung 鍾友珊; Keh-Jiann Chen 陳克健
Abstract 摘要
Since new compounds are generated very productively in Chinese, an automatic scheme is required to predict their part-of-speech and senses in order to automate computer language processing. To this end, we analyzed the morpho-syntactic behaviors of about 4,025 most productive morpheme characters in our affix database. We found that semantic and logical compatibility are more important than syntactic constraints in compounding. Hence, we classified morphemes into four major semantic types: object, act, attribute and value, and use semantic composition rules to derive the meaning and part-of-speech of compounds. Although some morpheme types and composition rules are ambiguous, we propose resolutions like constraints, analogy, morpheme position, and morpheme-specific rules to deal with them.
Keywords 關鍵詞
Chinese compounds 中文複合詞 Semantic type 語意類別 Affix 詞綴 Part-of-speech prediction 詞性預測 Sense disambiguation 語意解歧