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On the Semantic Relation between Nominal and Quantity Expressions in Japanese

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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (JSAI-isAI 2012)

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This paper demonstrates that the semantic relation between a nominal expression (NE) and a quantity expression (QE) is different in (i) QE no NE CM, (ii) NE QE CM, and (iii) NE CM QE, where CM is a case marker or postposition. Drawing on [5], it develops a type-theoretic language for describing these three distinct relations by using translation through monad.

The research conducted by Daisuke Bekki is partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (No. 22680013) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

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  1. University of Otago, New Zealand

    J. -R. Hayashishita

  2. Ochanomizu University, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

  3. National Institute of Informatics, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

    Yoichi Motomura

  2. Tohoku University, Kawauchi 41, 980-8576, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan

    Alastair Butler

  3. Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo-ku, 122-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

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Hayashishita, J.R., Bekki, D. (2013). On the Semantic Relation between Nominal and Quantity Expressions in Japanese. In: Motomura, Y., Butler, A., Bekki, D. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_4

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