Expletive ta in Mandarin Chinese: A Quantitative Study

Expletive pronouns have posed significant challenges to both linguistic studies and natural language processing in Chinese. Based on the data from the Chinese corpus at the Center for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University (CCL), this paper investigates the automatic dependency parsing errors of e...

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Published inComplexity (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 2022; no. 1
Main Authors Yu, Yue, Zhao, Qiurong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken Hindawi 2022
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Wiley
Subjects
Analysis
Computational linguistics
Deep learning
Expletives
Information processing
Language
Language processing
Linguistics
Mandarin
Methods
Natural language interfaces
Natural language processing
Parsing
Quantitative analysis
Semantics
Sleep
United Kingdom
Massachusetts
China
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ISSN1076-2787
1099-0526
DOI10.1155/2022/2156978

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Summary:Expletive pronouns have posed significant challenges to both linguistic studies and natural language processing in Chinese. Based on the data from the Chinese corpus at the Center for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University (CCL), this paper investigates the automatic dependency parsing errors of expletive ta (“it/he”) and relative constructions and provides a detailed quantitative analysis of the characteristics of the constructions in question. The findings not only provide evidence to show that even in radical pro-drop languages such as Mandarin, pleonastics can occur in both object and subject positions but also offer important insights for Chinese natural language processing.
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ISSN:1076-2787
1099-0526
DOI:10.1155/2022/2156978