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Normalizing Complex Functional Expressions in Japanese Predicates: Linguistically-Directed Rule-Based Paraphrasing and Its Application

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Genichiro Kikui,

Satoshi SatoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), Volume 12, Issue 3

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/2499955.2499959

Published: 01 August 2013 Publication History

Abstract

The growing need for text mining systems, such as opinion mining, requires a deep semantic understanding of the target language. In order to accomplish this, extracting the semantic information of functional expressions plays a crucial role, because functional expressions such as would like to and can’t are key expressions to detecting customers’ needs and wants. However, in Japanese, functional expressions appear in the form of suffixes, and two different types of functional expressions are merged into one predicate: one influences the factual meaning of the predicate while the other is merely used for discourse purposes. This triggers an increase in surface forms, which hinders information extraction systems. In this article, we present a novel normalization technique that paraphrases complex functional expressions into simplified forms that retain only the crucial meaning of the predicate. We construct paraphrasing rules based on linguistic theories in syntax and semantics. The results of experiments indicate that our system achieves a high accuracy of 79.7%, while it reduces the differences in functional expressions by up to 66.7%. The results also show an improvement in the performance of predicate extraction, providing encouraging evidence of the usability of paraphrasing as a means of normalizing different language expressions.

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Kameko HMatsuyoshi SRichardson JUshiku ASasada TMurawaki YTsuruoka YMori S(2021)Japanese Chess Commentary Corpus with Named Entity and Modality Annotation将棋解説文への固有表現・モダリティ情報アノテーションJournal of Natural Language Processing10.5715/jnlp.28.84728:3(847-873)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.5715/jnlp.28.847

Index Terms

Normalizing Complex Functional Expressions in Japanese Predicates: Linguistically-Directed Rule-Based Paraphrasing and Its Application
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Language translation
  2. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Document scripting languages
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
      1. Language resources

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ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Volume 12, Issue 3

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Published: 01 August 2013

Accepted: 01 October 2012

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Published in TALIP Volume 12, Issue 3

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Kameko HMatsuyoshi SRichardson JUshiku ASasada TMurawaki YTsuruoka YMori S(2021)Japanese Chess Commentary Corpus with Named Entity and Modality Annotation将棋解説文への固有表現・モダリティ情報アノテーションJournal of Natural Language Processing10.5715/jnlp.28.84728:3(847-873)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.5715/jnlp.28.847

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