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Detecting Mandarin question sentences is both interesting and difficult. To tackle this new topic, our strategy is first to try to increase recall and then precision. To achieve higher recall, we not only review relevant linguistic literature but also re-examine relevant issues from a new statistical and corpus point of view, and discover more comprehensive and precise question-related words than before. Next we present our statistical approaches and procedure, and discuss our findings. We achieve good recall and modest precision in the preliminary study, and pioneer the computational study of indefinitives.
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Yeh, PJ., Yuan, SM. (2003). Mandarin Question Sentence Detection: A Preliminary Study. In: Pires, F.M., Abreu, S. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24580-3_55
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