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

摘要

This paper describes a refinement to our procedure for porting lexicalconceptual structure into new languages. Specifically we describe atwo-step process for creating candidate thematic grids for MandarinChinese verbs, using the English verb heading the VP in thesubdefinitions to separate senses, and roughly parsing the verbcomplement structure to match to our thematic structure templates.The procedure is part of a larger process of creating a usable lexiconfor interlingual machine translation from a large on-line resourcewith both too much and too little information necessary for oursystem.(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-98-35)