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Network Informal Language Expression (NILE) has the characteristics of novelty, unconventionality and colloquialism, and it is often ambiguous in comprehension. The correct understanding of NILE is of great significance to natural language processing. Construction Grammar demonstrates that sentence meaning results from the interaction between constructional meaning and lexical meaning. This viewpoint provides a new way to resolve the ambiguity of NILE. Through the analysis of the 20,000 Weibo posts and comments from the NLPIR Weibo Content Corpus, it is found that the expression characteristics of NILE are mainly reflected in vocabulary and construction. NILE can be divided into three categories at the lexical level (including 12 sub-categories in total), and two effects of constructional meaning on lexical meaning can be summarized at the constructional level. Based on both constructional meaning and lexical features, a NILE disambiguation system is designed, and tested to prove its effectiveness in resolving the ambiguity of NILE.
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Xia, R., Zhang, K. (2022). Disambiguation of Network Informal Language Expressions Based on Construction Grammar. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_38
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