Abstract
Multiword expression (MWE) refers to various types of linguistic units that are made up of more than one word. Light verb constructions (LVCs), as one of the least explored areas in MWEs, have idiosyncratic features that are difficult to capture in computational linguistics. In this paper, we addressed the aspectual differences between LVCs and their corresponding regular verb constructions with corpus data. Specifically, the jiayi-LVC in Mandarin Chinese was investigated as a case study, where idiosyncratic aspectual information in the LVC was proposed. This feature was not yet previously represented in abstract meaning representation (AMR), in which LVCs and its regular verb counterparts shared the same AMR. Given the semantic difference in jiayi-LVCs, we expand AMR by introducing aspect as the root node, while maintaining the core predicative component in meaning representation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation |
| Editors | Minh Le Nguyen, Mai Chi Luong, Sanghoun Song |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 568–574 |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2020 |
| Event | The 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC-34) - Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam Duration: 24 Oct 2020 → 26 Oct 2020 |
Conference
| Conference | The 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC-34) |
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| Country/Territory | Viet Nam |
| City | Hanoi |
| Period | 24/10/20 → 26/10/20 |