UMR annotation of Chinese Verb compounds and related constructions
UMR annotation of Chinese Verb compounds and related constructions
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2023
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Haibo Sun;Yifan Zhu;Jin Zhao;Nianwen Xue
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Haibo Sun;Yifan Zhu;Jin Zhao;Nianwen Xue
本文讨论了在统一意义表征（Uniform Meaning Representation，UMR）中标注汉语动词复合词的谓元结构所面临的挑战。统一意义表征是一个新的意义表征框架，它将抽象意义表征（Abstract Meaning Representation，AMR）扩展到跨语言环境。关键问题是要确定是把动词复合词的论元结构作为一个整体来注释，还是注释其组成动词的论元结构及其之间的关系。本文考察了汉语动词复合词的不同类型，并根据动词成分的组合性原则、语法化程度和能产性原则提出了如何标注动词复合词的建议。我们提出了一个解决的实际问题，必须定义的语义角色的汉语动词复合词是相当开放的，从动词复合词是非成分或语法化的动词成分分离的组成动词复合词。对于复合动词复合词，我们不是把动词复合词的论元结构作为一个整体来注释，而是注释组成动词的论元结构以及它们之间的语义关系，因为创建一个详尽的动词复合词列表是不可行的。动词成分语法化的动词复合词也往往是生产性的，我们表示语法化的动词复合词作为主要动词的属性或关系。
This paper discusses the challenges of annotating the predicate-argument structure of Chinese verb compounds in Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR), a recent meaning representation framework that extends Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) to cross-linguistic settings. The key issue is to decide whether to annotate the argument structure of a verb compound as a whole, or to annotate the argument structure of their component verbs as well as the relations between them. We examine different types of Chinese verb compounds, and propose how to annotate them based on the principle of compositionality, level of grammaticalization, and productivity of component verbs. We propose a solution to the practical problem of having to define the semantic roles for Chinese verb compounds that are quite open-ended by separating compositional verb compounds from verb compounds that are non-compositional or have grammaticalized verb components. For compositional verb compounds, instead of annotating the argument structure of the verb compound as a whole, we annotate the argument structure of the component verbs as well as the semantic relations between them as creating an exhaustive list of such verb compounds is infeasible. Verb compounds with grammaticalized verb components also tend to be productive and we represent grammaticalized verb compounds as either attributes of the primary verb or as relations.