TY - GEN
T1 - A new categorization framework for Chinese adverbs
AU - Xu, Hongzhi
AU - Shi, Dingxu
AU - Huang, Chu-ren
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Previous studies on the categorization of Chinese adverbs have not come to a conclusive end, in part due to their varying criteria. While many studies have focused on subcategories of adverbs, the boundaries of the subcategories themselves are not clear. As a result, there is still no clear picture where Chinese adverbs stand in the whole field of Chinese semantics. In addition, not enough features have been explored in order to derive highly cohesive categories. In this paper, we present a new categorization framework for Chinese adverbs. Firstly, four coarse-grained categories are proposed according to the semantic structures of sentences, including the proposition, modalities, aspect and other meaning components. Then, several semantic and syntactic features are used to further divide the four categories into more than ninety finer-grained subcategories. Based on the new framework, we find that adverbs in the same category function in similar ways, both semantically and syntactically.
AB - Previous studies on the categorization of Chinese adverbs have not come to a conclusive end, in part due to their varying criteria. While many studies have focused on subcategories of adverbs, the boundaries of the subcategories themselves are not clear. As a result, there is still no clear picture where Chinese adverbs stand in the whole field of Chinese semantics. In addition, not enough features have been explored in order to derive highly cohesive categories. In this paper, we present a new categorization framework for Chinese adverbs. Firstly, four coarse-grained categories are proposed according to the semantic structures of sentences, including the proposition, modalities, aspect and other meaning components. Then, several semantic and syntactic features are used to further divide the four categories into more than ninety finer-grained subcategories. Based on the new framework, we find that adverbs in the same category function in similar ways, both semantically and syntactically.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84957029473&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_1
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783319271934
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 3
EP - 14
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 16th Workshop, CLSW 2015, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 16th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2015
Y2 - 9 May 2015 through 11 May 2015
ER -