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This paper annotates the English corresponding units of Chinese clauses in Chinese-English translation and statistically analyzes them. Firstly, based on Chinese clause segmentation, we segment English target text into corresponding units (clause) to get a Chinese-to-English clause-aligned parallel corpus. Then, we annotate the grammatical properties of the English corresponding clauses in the corpus. Finally, we find the distribution characteristics of grammatical properties of English corresponding clauses by statistically analyzing the annotated corpus: there are more clauses (1631,74.41%) than sentences (561,25.59%); there are more major clauses (1719,78.42%) than subordinate clauses (473,21.58%); there are more adverbial clauses (392,82.88%) than attributive clauses (81,17.12%) and more non-defining clauses (358,75.69%) than restrictive relative clauses (115,24.31%) in subordinate clauses; and there are more simple clauses (1142,52.1%) than coordinate clauses (1050,47.9%).
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This paper was supported by Program of humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education (13YJC740022, 15YJC740021), Major projects of basic researches of Philosophy and Sociology in colleges, Henan (2015-JCZD-022), China Postdoctoral Fund (2013M540594), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61273320, 61502149, 61402119), China Scholarship Council (201508090048) and Programs to Improve Competitiveness, Russia (02.A03.21.0006).
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Feng, W., Yang, Y., Li, Y., Li, X., Ren, H. (2016). Study on the English Corresponding Unit of Chinese Clause. In: Lin, CY., Xue, N., Zhao, D., Huang, X., Feng, Y. (eds) Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications. ICCPOL NLPCC 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10102. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50496-4_11
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