The Company They Keep: Extracting Japanese Neologisms Using Language Patterns

• Main Authors: Breen, James, Baldwin, Timothy, Bond, Francis
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Japanese Text; Lexicons
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88494; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44912; http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/pdfs/GWC2018_paper_20.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We describe an investigation into the identification and extraction of unrecorded potential lexical items in Japanese text by detecting text passages containing selected language patterns typically associated with such items. We identified a set of suitable patterns, then tested them with two large...