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Syntactic Categorization and Semantic Interpretation of Chinese Nominal Compounds

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Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications (ICCPOL 2016, NLPCC 2016)

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The development in society and technology generates more Nominal Compounds to represent new concepts in various domains. Earlier literature in linguistic studies has gathered and established several syntactic categories of Nominal Compounds, which can be used for automatic syntactic categorization of these compounds. This paper is focused on Nominal Compounds of head-modifier construction because experiments show that most Nominal Compounds are head-modifier constructions. Based on the combination of templates and word similarity, this paper proposes an algorithm for automatic semantic interpretation which improves the recall ratio while maintaining the precision ratio. The results of syntactic categorization and automatic semantic interpretation of the Nominal Compounds are also applied in dependency parsing and machine translation.

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Acknowledgement

This work is partially supported by Chinese National Fund of Natural Science under Grant 61272221 and 61472191, Jiangsu Province Fund of Social Science under Grant 12YYA002, and Natural Science Research of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China under Grant 14KJB520022, 15KJA420001.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, No. 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Taizhong Wu, Min Gu, Yanhui Gu, Junsheng Zhou & Weiguang Qu

  2. Jiangsu Research Center of Information Security and Privacy Technology, No. 122 Ninghai Road, Nanjing, 210097, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Jian Liu, Yanhui Gu, Junsheng Zhou & Weiguang Qu

  3. School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 410074, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

    Xuri Tang

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Wu, T. et al. (2016). Syntactic Categorization and Semantic Interpretation of Chinese Nominal Compounds. 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_5

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