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Resolution of Modifier-Head Relation Gaps Using Automatically Extracted Metonymic Expressions

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Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2004 (IJCNLP 2004)

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This paper proposes a method of extracting metonymic expressions and their interpretative expressions from corpora and its application for the full-parsing-based matching method of a QA system. An evaluation showed that 79% of the extracted interpretations were correct, and an experiment using testsets indicated that introducing the metonymic expressions significantly improved the performance.

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  1. PRESTO, JST, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501

    Yoji Kiyota

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656

    Sadao Kurohashi

  3. Microsoft Co., Ltd., Odakyu Southern Tower, 2-2-1, Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8583

    Fuyuko Kido

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  1. Yoji Kiyota
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  1. Behavior Design Corporation, IV Science-Based Industrial Park Hsinchu, 2F, No.5, Industry E. Rd, Taiwan

    Keh-Yih Su

  2. University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, JST CREST, Honcho 4-1-8, Kawaguchi-shi,, 332-0012, Saitama,  

    Jun’ichi Tsujii

  3. Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), AITrc, Republic of Korea

    Jong-Hyeok Lee

  4. Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Oi Yee Kwong

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Kiyota, Y., Kurohashi, S., Kido, F. (2005). Resolution of Modifier-Head Relation Gaps Using Automatically Extracted Metonymic Expressions. In: Su, KY., Tsujii, J., Lee, JH., Kwong, O.Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2004. IJCNLP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30211-7_39

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