Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers

• Main Authors: Bond, Francis., Paik, Kyonghee.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92347; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6827
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we present a solution to the problem of generating Japanese numeral classifiers using semantic classes from an ontology. Most nouns must take a numeral classifier when they are quantified in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay and Thai...