Open AccessWord Class Ratios and Genres in Written Japanese: Revisiting the Modifier Verb Ratio
Author(s) -
Bor Hodošček
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
acta linguistica asiatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2232-3317
DOI - 10.4312/ala.1.2.53-62
Subject(s) - verb , noun , linguistics , relation (database) , word (group theory) , class (philosophy) , mathematics , psychology , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , database
This paper explores the variability of genres in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese using the modifier-verb ratio proposed by Kabashima and Jukaku (1965). Using bagplots to quantifying the relation between noun and modifier-verb ratios, as well as some summary statistics obtain from them, we attempt to classify genres according to Kabashima and Jugaku (1965). Our initial analysis confirms previous research results, while at the same time uncovering some contradictions in the ratios of the genre of magazines