| Presentation | 2004/10/29 Classification of Japanese spatial nouns Takenobu TOKUNAGA, Tomofumi KOYAMA, Suguru SAITO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We have already proposed a framework to represent a location in terms of both symbolic and numeric aspects. In order to deal with vague linguistic expressions of a location, the representation adopts a potential function mapping a location to its plausibility. This paper proposes classification of Japanese spatial nouns and potential functions corresponding to each class. We focused on a common Japanese spatial expression "X no Y (Y of X)" where X is a reference object and Y is a spatial noun. For example, "tukue no migi (the right of the desk)" denotes a location with reference to the desk. This expression was collected from corpora, and spatial nouns appearing in the Y position were classified into two major classes; designating a part of the reference object and designating a location apart from the reference object . And the latter class were further classified into two sub-classes; direction-oriented and distance-oriented. For each class, a potential function were designed for providing meaning of spatial nouns. |
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| Keyword(in English) | spatial vaguness / potential function / spatial nouns / spatial expressions / Japanese |
| Paper # | NLC2004-33 |
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| Committee | NLC |
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| Conference Date | 2004/10/29(1days) |
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| Registration To | Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication (NLC) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Classification of Japanese spatial nouns |
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| Keyword(1) | spatial vaguness |
| Keyword(2) | potential function |
| Keyword(3) | spatial nouns |
| Keyword(4) | spatial expressions |
| Keyword(5) | Japanese |
| 1st Author's Name | Takenobu TOKUNAGA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science Tokyo Institute of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tomofumi KOYAMA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Suguru SAITO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Date | 2004/10/29 |
| Paper # | NLC2004-33 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.104 |
| Number (no) | 417 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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