TY - GEN
T1 - Constructing Taxonomy of Numerative Classifiers for Asian Languages
AU - Shirai, Kiyoaki
AU - Tokunaga, Takenobu
AU - Huang, Chu Ren
AU - Hsieh, Shu Kai
AU - Kuo, Tzu Yi
AU - Sornlertlamvanich, Virach
AU - Charoenporn, Thatsanee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2008 IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. All rights reserved.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Numerative classifiers are ubiquitous in many Asian languages. This paper proposes a method to construct a taxonomy of numerative classifiers based on a nounclassifier agreement database. The taxonomy defines superordinate-subordinate relation among numerative classifiers and represents the relations in tree structures. The experiments to construct taxonomies were conducted for evaluation by using data from three different languages: Chinese, Japanese and Thai. We found that our method was promising for Chinese and Japanese, but inappropriate for Thai. It confirms that there really is no hierarchy among Thai classifiers.
AB - Numerative classifiers are ubiquitous in many Asian languages. This paper proposes a method to construct a taxonomy of numerative classifiers based on a nounclassifier agreement database. The taxonomy defines superordinate-subordinate relation among numerative classifiers and represents the relations in tree structures. The experiments to construct taxonomies were conducted for evaluation by using data from three different languages: Chinese, Japanese and Thai. We found that our method was promising for Chinese and Japanese, but inappropriate for Thai. It confirms that there really is no hierarchy among Thai classifiers.
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M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:49049100546
T3 - IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 397
EP - 402
BT - IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2008
Y2 - 7 January 2008 through 12 January 2008
ER -