A Corpus of Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08437v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:59:55 GMT
• Title: A Corpus of Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese
• Authors: Siyao Peng, Yang Liu, Yilun Zhu, Austin Blodgett, Yushi Zhao, Nathan Schneider
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a corpus in which all adpositions have been semantically annotated in Mandarin Chinese. Our approach adapts a framework that defined a general set of supersenses according to ostensibly language-independent semantic criteria. We find that the supersense categories are well-suited to Chinese adpositions despite syntactic differences from English.
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• Abstract: Adpositions are frequent markers of semantic relations, but they are highly ambiguous and vary significantly from language to language. Moreover, there is a dearth of annotated corpora for investigating the cross-linguistic variation of adposition semantics, or for building multilingual disambiguation systems. This paper presents a corpus in which all adpositions have been semantically annotated in Mandarin Chinese; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first Chinese corpus to be broadly annotated with adposition semantics. Our approach adapts a framework that defined a general set of supersenses according to ostensibly language-independent semantic criteria, though its development focused primarily on English prepositions (Schneider et al., 2018). We find that the supersense categories are well-suited to Chinese adpositions despite syntactic differences from English. On a Mandarin translation of The Little Prince, we achieve high inter-annotator agreement and analyze semantic correspondences of adposition tokens in bitext.

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