Formalization of Ontological Relations of Korean Numeral Classifiers

Jung, Youngim; Hwang, Soonhee; Yoon, Ae-Sun; Kwon, Hyuk‐Chul

doi:10.1007/11941439_131

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“…With the growing interest in ontology (Nichols et al 2005;Philpot et al 2003;Sowa 2000) and the need for semantic analysis in NLP (Nirenburg and Raskin 2004), classifiers have been dealt with in diverse ways. An important motivation behind approaching classifiers for application in the NLP domain and using its techniques is found especially in a series of studies (Bond et al 1996;Bond and Paik 2000;Hwang et al 2006;Jung et al 2006). Bond et al (1996) and Bond and Paik (2000) proposed a method for the automatic generation of Korean and Japanese numeral classifiers using semantic categories extracted from a thesaurus and dictionaries.…”

Section: Classifiers For Application In Nlpmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1, p. 227, pp. 316-317); (2) description of classifiers according to their meaning (Downing 1993); (3) semantic analysis for various classifiers (Huang and Ahrens 2003;Matsumoto 1993); and (4) application of classifiers' categories in NLP, using an ontology for generating numeral classifiers (Bond et al 1996;Paik 1997, 2000;Guo and Zhong 2005;Hwang et al 2006;Jung et al 2006;Paik and Bond 2001).…”

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“…Hwang et al (2006) proposed the semantic recategorization of numeral classifiers in Korean and the first Korean numeral classifier ontology based on large corpora and Korean WordNet. Jung et al (2006) discussed a semi-automatic method of extracting and representing the various ontological relations of Korean classifiers. Those relations were formalized with OWL, and the results obtained show that relations such as 'IsEquivalentTo' and 'HasOrigin' can be used to improve performance in machine translation.…”

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The complexity of Korean numeral classifiers demands semantic as well as computational approaches that employ natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The classifier is a universal linguistic device, having the two functions of quantifying and classifying nouns in noun phrase constructions. Many linguistic studies have focused on the fact that numeral classifiers afford decisive clues to categorizing nouns. However, few studies have dealt with the semantic categorization of classifiers and their semantic relations to the nouns they quantify and categorize in building ontologies. In this article, we propose the semantic recategorization of the Korean numeral classifiers in the context of classifier ontology based on large corpora and KorLex Noun 1.5 (Korean wordnet; Korean Lexical Semantic Network), considering its high applicability in the NLP domain. In particular, the classifier can be effectively used to predict the semantic characteristics of nouns and to process them appropriately in NLP. The major challenge is to make such semantic classification and the attendant NLP techniques efficient. Accordingly, a Korean numeral classifier ontology (KorLexClas 1.0), including semantic hierarchies and relations to nouns, was constructed.

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