Abstract
We introduce a corpus of short texts in Mandarin, in which quantified expressions figure prominently. We illustrate the significance of the corpus by examining the hypothesis (known as Huang’s “coolness” hypothesis) that speakers of East Asian Languages tend to speak more briefly but less informatively than, for example, speakers of West-European languages. The corpus results from an elicitation experiment in which participants were asked to describe abstract visual scenes. We compare the resulting corpus, called MQTUNA, with an English corpus that was collected using the same experimental paradigm. The comparison reveals that some, though not all, aspects of quantifier use support the above-mentioned hypothesis. Implications of these findings for the generation of quantified noun phrases are discussed.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.findings-aacl.7
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Online only
- Editors:
- Yulan He, Heng Ji, Sujian Li, Yang Liu, Chua-Hui Chang
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 73–80
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-aacl.7
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Guanyi Chen and Kees van Deemter. 2022. Understanding the Use of Quantifiers in Mandarin. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022, pages 73–80, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Understanding the Use of Quantifiers in Mandarin (Chen & van Deemter, Findings 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.findings-aacl.7.pdf