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Annotating Principal Event Chain in Chinese Texts

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2014)

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Abstract

Cohesion in discourse represents not only lexical context, but also event subsequence, both of which have a close relationship in text understanding. This paper proposes a discourse annotation scheme based on principle event chain, which is derived from lexical and event chain. In this scheme, lexical chains are clues for searching principle events, while principle events in those sentences that includes words that are also in lexical chains are linked to build a principle event chain. Examples show that principle event chain represents cohesion relations in discourse and ensure consistent annotation as well.

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  1. Hubei Research Base of Language and Intelligent Information Processing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yu Chen, Han Ren, Jing Wan, Donghong Ji & Guozheng Xiao

  2. College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yu Chen & Guozheng Xiao

  3. Computer School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Donghong Ji

  4. School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Han Ren

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  2. Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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Chen, Y., Ren, H., Wan, J., Ji, D., Xiao, G. (2014). Annotating Principal Event Chain in Chinese Texts. In: Su, X., He, T. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8922. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_42

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