Enhancing Automatic Acquisition of Thematic Structure in a Large-Scale Lexicon for Mandarin Chinese

TitleEnhancing Automatic Acquisition of Thematic Structure in a Large-Scale Lexicon for Mandarin Chinese
Publication TypeBook Chapters
Year of Publication1998
AuthorsOlsen M, Dorr BJ, Thomas S
EditorFarwell D, Gerber L, Hovy E
Book TitleMachine Translation and the Information SoupMachine Translation and the Information Soup
Series TitleLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume1529
Pagination41 - 50
PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISBN Number978-3-540-65259-5
Abstract

This paper describes a refinement to our procedure for porting lexical conceptual structure (LCS) into new languages. Specifically we describe a two-step process for creating candidate thematic grids for Mandarin Chinese verbs, using the English verb heading the VP in the subde_nitions to separate senses, and roughly parsing the verb complement structure to match thematic structure templates. We accomplished a substantial reduction in manual effort, without substantive loss. The procedure is part of a larger process of creating a usable lexicon for interlingual machine translation from a large on-line resource with both too much and too little information.

URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_4