Open AccessA computational treatment of V-V compounds in Japanese
Author(s) -
Chikara Hashimoto,
Francis Bond
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2005.8
Subject(s) - lexicon , computer science , natural language processing , simple (philosophy) , grammar , computational linguistics , artificial intelligence , rule based machine translation , contrast (vision) , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
We examine how a large-scale computational grammar can account for thecomplex nature of Japanese verbal compounds. Previous computationalJapanese grammars have tried to avoid the problem by simple solutionssuch as enumerating as many verbal compounds in the lexicon aspossible. In contrast, we develop the analysis that is linguisticallyadequate and computationally tractable and thus meets therequirement of a syntactically and semantically precise naturallanguage processing of Japanese like Bond et al. (2005). Our analysisdistinguishes between two kinds of verbal compounds: syntacticcompounds, which are fully productive; and lexical compounds, whichare of varying productivity.