The Stylistic Classification of Modern Chinese Adverbs for Automatic Style Recognition

Abstract

In natural language understanding, different styles are generally identified by the characteristics of words and sentence patterns. However, the current research on style in linguistics mainly focuses on the construction of the Chinese style system and its characteristics. It has not yet involved the classification of style for specific words, which has the problem of mismatch between theory and application. In the linguistic field, adverbs are generally classified from the perspective of semantics, while this paper is oriented toward the automatic identification of style. Therefore, we classified the adverbs from the perspective of style. Firstly, the modern Chinese style is regarded as a hierarchical system, and we divide it into formal and informal styles, with formal style including elegant style and written formal style, and informal style including spoken mandarin style and dialect style. Secondly, we proposed the criteria for classifying Chinese adverbial style, and they are composition characteristics, rhyme, morphology, and frequency. Finally, we also proposed the concept of "cross-style adverbs" and introduced it. It can not only provide a reference for the corpora classification of other Chinese words but also provide a database for the automatic recognition of Chinese corpora, and further improve the accuracy of the automatic recognition of corpora.