Abstract
The rapid development of computational linguistics has put forward higher requirements for accurate semantic perception. As the foundation of the semantic understanding of natural language, much previous research has focused on the micro-structure of word meanings of different parts of speech and its sub-categories. This paper takes the anger-type psychological adjectives in modern Chinese as the research object and studies its semantic structures under the guidance of semantic primitive theory by describing the semantic features and the semantic primitive structural attributes, conducting the semantic analysis, extracting the semantic primitives and building a semantic primitive set of the anger-type psychological adjectives in modern Chinese. The result of this paper clarifies the similarities and differences between the meanings of all the anger-type psychological adjectives and solves the problems of circular and identical definitions in dictionaries, which to some extent is helpful in providing support for machines in language understanding and automatic language production therefore improves the speed and accuracy of language processing.
Highlights
The advert of the information age and the subsequent interplay between co mputer sciences and linguistics demand accurate descriptions of word meanings in natural language processing; more and more attention has been paid to the study of the micro-structures of word mean ings
Scholars both at home and abroad have made great attempts to extract semantic primit ives and magnificent achievements in the fields of natural language, dictionary interpretation and language engineering. Wierzbicka and her team have extracted over 60 semantic primit ives fro m about 30 languages in the world, and the 60 semantic primitives are generally shared by all these languages.[1]
Zhao lists 11 basic anger-type psychological adjectives in his doctoral thesis, and sets up five elements of the semantic feature, namely, semantic class, semantic orientation, semantic primitive, original quantity feature, and social meaning. He extracts the paradigmatic semantic feature and establishes the semantic identity (ID) o f each anger-type psychological adjective according to the dictionary definition and cognitive judgment
Summary
The advert of the information age and the subsequent interplay between co mputer sciences and linguistics demand accurate descriptions of word meanings in natural language processing; more and more attention has been paid to the study of the micro-structures of word mean ings. As the basic materials to describe the micro -structures of word mean ings, the extraction of semantic primitives is the first step in the construction of the large-scaled semantic knowledge base Scholars both at home and abroad have made great attempts to extract semantic primit ives and magnificent achievements in the fields of natural language, dictionary interpretation and language engineering. Zhao lists 11 basic anger-type psychological adjectives in his doctoral thesis, and sets up five elements of the semantic feature, namely, semantic class, semantic orientation, semantic primitive, original quantity feature, and social meaning Furthermo re, he extracts the paradigmatic semantic feature and establishes the semantic identity (ID) o f each anger-type psychological adjective according to the dictionary definition and cognitive judgment. What are the semantic primitive units of the anger-type psychological adjectives in modern Chinese?
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