An implemented description of Japanese : the Lexeed dictionary and the Hinoki treebank

• Main Authors: Fujita, Sanae, Tanaka, Takaaki, Bond, Francis, Nakaiwa, Hiromi
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Japanese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79570; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6821
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we describe the current state of a new Japanese lexical resource: the Hinoki treebank. The treebank is built from dictionary definition sentences, and uses an HPSG based Japanese grammar to encode both syntactic and semantic information. It is combined with an ontology based on the def...