Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese
- Yilun Zhu (Georgetown University)
- Yang Liu (Georgetown University)
- Siyao Peng (Georgetown University)
- Austin Blodgett (Georgetown University)
- Yushi Zhao (Georgetown Unviersity)
- Nathan Schneider (Georgetown University)
Abstract
This study adapts Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses (SNACS) annotation to Mandarin Chinese and demonstrates that the same supersense categories are appropriate for Chinese adposition semantics. We annotated 20 chapters of The Little Prince, with high interannotator agreement. The parallel corpus substantiates the applicability of construal analysis in Chinese and gives insight into the differences in construals between adpositions in two languages. The corpus can further support automatic disambiguation of adpositions in Chinese, and the common inventory of supersenses between the two languages can potentially serve cross-linguistic tasks such as machine translation.
Keywords: Adpositions, Supersense, Corpus annotation, Chinese, Semantics, Coverbs, Localizers
How to Cite:
Zhu, Y., Liu, Y., Peng, S., Blodgett, A., Zhao, Y. & Schneider, N., (2019) “Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2(1), 334-337. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/ne25-d350
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