Classification of Japanese Spatial Nouns

Takenobu Tokunaga, Tomofumi Koyama, Suguru Saito, Masayuki Nakajima


Abstract
We have already proposed a framework to represent a location in terms of both symbolic and numeric aspects. In order to deal with vague linguistic expressions of a location, the representation adopts a potential function mapping a location to its plausibility. This paper proposes classification of Japanese spatial nouns and potential functions corresponding to each class. We focused on a common Japanese spatial expression ``X no Y (Y of X)'' where X is a reference object and Y is a spatial noun. For example, ``tukue no migi (the right of the desk)'' denotes a location with reference to the desk. This expression were collected from corpora, and spatial nouns appearing in the Y position were classified into two major classes; designating a part of the reference object and designating a location apart from the reference object . And the latter class were further classified into two subclasses; direction-oriented and distance-oriented. For each class, a potential function were designed for providing meaning of spatial nouns.
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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)
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May
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2004
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Maria Teresa Lino, Maria Francisca Xavier, Fátima Ferreira, Rute Costa, Raquel Silva
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Takenobu Tokunaga, Tomofumi Koyama, Suguru Saito, and Masayuki Nakajima. 2004. Classification of Japanese Spatial Nouns. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04), Lisbon, Portugal. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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