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A Study on the Recovery of Omitted Constituents in Chinese Elliptical Sentences

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2022)

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Rule-based processing of an elliptical sentence corpus and the construction of a dataset is the basis for various elliptical recovery tasks. We clarify the scope of Chinese elliptical sentences from a linguistic point of view, manually annotate the existing elliptical corpus, and construct a dataset for elliptical recovery. Moreover, we address the problems of different criteria for judging ellipsis and different degrees of fineness in recovering elliptical components in the manual annotation process and study the criteria for recovering elliptical components of Chinese elliptical sentences based on the needs of elliptical recovery tasks and the operability of computers. The linguistic explanation provides a reference for the dataset’s expansion in the subsequent tasks of omission position detection and omission-referent disambiguation.

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Notes

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    [Ø1] indicates an omission whose equivalent could be found before or behind itself in the sentence.

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    [Ø] indicates a position in the text where an elliptical component may be considered to be added but is not needed.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61872402), the Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education (17YJAZH068),Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”) (18ZDJ03), and supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Research Funds of Beijing Language and Culture University(22YCX055).

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    Han Yan, Yiran Zhao, Peipei Sun & Yanqiu Shao

  2. National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center (CNLR) Print Media Language Branch, Beijing, China

    Han Yan, Yiran Zhao, Peipei Sun & Yanqiu Shao

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Yan, H., Zhao, Y., Sun, P., Shao, Y. (2023). A Study on the Recovery of Omitted Constituents in Chinese Elliptical Sentences. In: Su, Q., Xu, G., Yang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13495. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_20

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