Analysis of Japanese Compound Nouns using Collocational Information

1994/12/25 by Yosiyuki Kobayasi, Kobayasi Yosiyuki, Yosiyuki, Kobayasi +5
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Psychology · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Lexicography and Language Studies #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Second Language Acquisition and Learning #cmp-lg #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9412008

COLING'94 papar, Technical Paper at Tokyo Institute of Technology, 6pages and LaTeX

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Abstract

Analyzing compound nouns is one of the crucial issues for natural language processing systems, in particular for those systems that aim at a wide coverage of domains. In this paper, we propose a method to analyze structures of Japanese compound nouns by using both word collocations statistics and a thesaurus. An experiment is conducted with 160,000 word collocations to analyze compound nouns of with an average length of 4.9 characters. The accuracy of this method is about 80%.

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