Constructing a Corpus of Japanese Predicate Phrases for Synonym/Antonym Relations
Tomoko Izumi, Tomohide Shibata, Hisako Asano, Yoshihiro Matsuo, Sadao Kurohashi
Abstract
We construct a large corpus of Japanese predicate phrases for synonym-antonym relations. The corpus consists of 7,278 pairs of predicates such as receive-permission (ACC) vs. obtain-permission (ACC), in which each predicate pair is accompanied by a noun phrase and case information. The relations are categorized as synonyms, entailment, antonyms, or unrelated. Antonyms are further categorized into three different classes depending on their aspect of oppositeness. Using the data as a training corpus, we conduct the supervised binary classification of synonymous predicates based on linguistically-motivated features. Combining features that are characteristic of synonymous predicates with those that are characteristic of antonymous predicates, we succeed in automatically identifying synonymous predicates at the high F-score of 0.92, a 0.4 improvement over the baseline method of using the Japanese WordNet. The results of an experiment confirm that the quality of the corpus is high enough to achieve automatic classification. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first and the largest publicly available corpus of Japanese predicate phrases for synonym-antonym relations.- Anthology ID:
- L14-1244
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1394–1400
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/267_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Tomoko Izumi, Tomohide Shibata, Hisako Asano, Yoshihiro Matsuo, and Sadao Kurohashi. 2014. Constructing a Corpus of Japanese Predicate Phrases for Synonym/Antonym Relations. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1394–1400, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Constructing a Corpus of Japanese Predicate Phrases for Synonym/Antonym Relations (Izumi et al., LREC 2014)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/267_Paper.pdf