Tai Suzuki


2022

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CHJ-WLSP: Annotation of ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’ Labels for the Corpus of Historical Japanese
Masayuki Asahara | Nao Ikegami | Tai Suzuki | Taro Ichimura | Asuko Kondo | Sachi Kato | Makoto Yamazaki
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages

This article presents a word-sense annotation for the Corpus of Historical Japanese: a mashed-up Japanese lexicon based on the ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’ (WLSP). The WLSP is a large-scale Japanese thesaurus that includes 98,241 entries with syntactic and hierarchical semantic categories. The historical WLSP is also compiled for the words in ancient Japanese. We utilized a morpheme-word sense alignment table to extract all possible word sense candidates for each word appearing in the target corpus. Then, we manually disambiguated the word senses for 647,751 words in the texts from the 10th century to 1910.