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Formal Representation and Semantics of Modern Chinese Interrogative Sentences

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2003)

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In modern Chinese, interrogative sentences are transformed from indicative sentences. At first, this paper gives the classification of modern Chinese interrogative sentences and their transformation from indicative sentences. Then we analyze the querying focus and point out that the querying focus is an abstract of a component of an indicative sentence and so an interrogative sentence is formed. Adopting the idea of the structured meaning approach, we present the semantics of modern Chinese interrogative sentences and their formal representations basing on the functor. All kinds of Chinese interrogative sentences including “NP+ne” and “VP+ne” are analyzed. Why we start from QF to study interrogative sentences is also discussed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University Shanghai, 200030, People’s Republic of China

    Jia-ju Mao, Qiu-lin Chen & Ru-zhan Lu

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Mao, Jj., Chen, Ql., Lu, Rz. (2003). Formal Representation and Semantics of Modern Chinese Interrogative Sentences. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2588. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36456-0_7

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