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Modality is the speaker’s subject idea processed and expressed for sentence objective express system. Modal meaning is important for deep understanding of sentence semantics. In this paper, a Chinese modality annotation framework aimed for deep semantic understanding is preliminarily practiced, which constructed a modal meaning classification system on the basis of existing research results, built the modal operator dictionary, established rules for annotation, and annotated modal operators of a sentence which have been tagged basic proposition arguments.
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Zhang, K., Mu, L., Zan, H., Han, Y., Sui, Z. (2016). Study on Modality Annotation Framework of Modern Chinese. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_28
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