Extraction of attribute concepts from Japanese adjectives

• Main Authors: Kyoko, Kanzaki, Bond, Francis, Tomuro, Noriko, Hitoshi, Isahara
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91957; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6459; http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/summaries/433.html
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We describe various syntactic and semantic conditions for finding abstractnouns which refer to concepts of adjectives from a text, in an attempt to explore the creation of a thesaurus from text. Depending on usages, six kinds of syntactic patterns are shown. In the syntactic and semantic conditions an omission of an abstract noun is mainly used, but in addition, various linguistic clues are needed. We then compare our results with synsets of Japanese WordNet. From a viewpoint of Japanese WordNet, the degree of agreement of "Attribute" between our data and Japanese WordNet was 22%. On the other hand, the total number of differences of obtained abstract nouns was 267. From a viewpoint of our data,the degree of agreement of abstract nouns between our data and Japanese WordNet was 54%.