Enhancing Automatic Acquisition of Thematic Structure in a Large-Scale Lexicon for Mandarin Chinese

This thesis proposes several methods for bilingual corpus form different websites, such as Automatic acquisition of bilingual corpus base on "iciba" web, CNKI and Patent network. It introduced methods, procedures of the acquisition of a variety of corpus. We proposed different methods to obtain the bilingual corpus for different characteristics of different sites, and achieved fast and accurate automatic access of a large-scale bilingual corpus. When we obtain the bilingual corpus based on "iciba" web, the main method is Nutch crawler, which is relatively good, and has an accurate retrieve and a good correlation. In addition, we give up the idea of bilingual corpus obtained from the entire Internet, but we use an entirely new access, that is to access to the basic information of scholarly thesis’s in the CNKI to obtain the large-scale high-quality English-Chinese bilingual corpus. We obtain GB level of large-scale bilingual aligned corpus in the end, which is very accurate by the manual evaluation. And the corpus makes preparation for the further cross-language information retrieval research.

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Large-Scale Language Modeling with Random Forests for Mandarin Chinese Speech-to-Text

Advances in Natural Language Processing - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-14770-8_31 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 269-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ilya Oparin ◽

Lori Lamel ◽

Jean-Luc Gauvain

Keyword(s):

Mandarin Chinese ◽

Random Forests ◽

Large Scale ◽

Language Modeling

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Developmental changes in the early child lexicon in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Child Language ◽

10.1017/s030500091400018x ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 42 (3) ◽

pp. 505-537 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

MEILING HAO ◽

YOUYI LIU ◽

HUA SHU ◽

AILING XING ◽

YING JIANG ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mandarin Chinese ◽

Word Length ◽

Large Scale ◽

Age Of Acquisition ◽

Developmental Changes ◽

Developmental Study ◽

Grammatical Category ◽

Frequency Word ◽

Predominant Type ◽

English Speaking

ABSTRACTIn this paper we report a large-scale developmental study of early productive vocabulary acquisition by 928 Chinese-speaking children aged between 1;0 and 2;6, using the Early Vocabulary Inventory for Mandarin Chinese (Hao, Shu, Xing & Li, 2008). The results show that: (i) social words, especially words for people, are the predominant type of words in Chinese-speaking children's earliest productive vocabulary; (ii) overall, Chinese-speaking children's vocabulary contains greater proportions of nouns than other word categories, especially at the earliest vocabulary stage; and (iii) verbs tend to appear earlier for Chinese-speaking children as compared with English-speaking children at the same levels of vocabulary development. In addition, our study has identified the underlying variables that influence the age of acquisition of words, specifically, the interplay between the conceptual (imageability) and linguistic properties (word frequency, word length, and grammatical category) that jointly shape the development of Mandarin-speaking children's early vocabulary.

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Thematic structure and verb copying in Mandarin Chinese

Language Sciences ◽

10.1016/0388-0001(91)90024-u ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 13 (3-4) ◽

pp. 399-419 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Claire Hsun-huei Chang

Keyword(s):

Mandarin Chinese ◽

Thematic Structure

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How Subjective Is the Subject?

Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie orientale ◽

10.30687/annor/2385-3042/2018/01/014 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Morbiato

Keyword(s):

Mandarin Chinese ◽

Large Scale ◽

Native Speakers ◽

Grammatical Relations ◽

Conflicting Evidence ◽

Alternative Approach ◽

The Subject ◽

Typological Approach ◽

Definition Of ◽

Quantifier Float

This article re-examines the issue of grammatical relations in Mandarin Chinese in light of the results of recent large-scale typological research on grammatical relations (henceforth GRs) worldwide. Specifically, it discusses three syntactic operations and constructions that are cross-linguistically relevant to the definition of grammatical relations, namely relativisation, reflexivisation, and quantifier float. The study adopts a strictly language-internal typological approach and avails itself of natural linguistic data or sentences sanity-checked by native speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, it explores the hypothesis that, in line with various other languages, GRs in Mandarin Chinese are construction-specific. Second, it proposes an alternative approach capable of explaining the conflicting evidence often pointed out in the literature on GRs and subjecthood in Mandarin Chinese.

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