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"abstract": "Structural analysis of compound words is necessary and an important process in natural language processing. Proposed here is a corpus-and statistics-based method for the structural analysis of compound words in Japanese. We determine the structure of a compound word by using Internet corpus and calculating the strength of word association among its constituent words. Experiments with 5, 6, 7, and 8 kanji compound words show that our method works well and its performance is better than those of other comparable studies.",
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"text": "Structural analysis of compound words is necessary and an important process in natural language processing. Proposed here is a corpus-and statistics-based method for the structural analysis of compound words in Japanese. We determine the structure of a compound word by using Internet corpus and calculating the strength of word association among its constituent words. Experiments with 5, 6, 7, and 8 kanji compound words show that our method works well and its performance is better than those of other comparable studies.",
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"text": "A sequence of words may assume a single syntactic function in English and the same is true in Japanese. Machine translation system, for instance, consists of three words machine, translation and system. Its equivalent in Japanese, MA F IR 3 5-1A, is a compound word with three constituent words, OW (machine), (translation), and (system). It is a single concept and functions as a noun.",
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"text": "Both English and Japanese face problems in processing such a sequence of words. A problem involved in English is in identifying the sequence of words as a syntactic as well as semantic unit. It is easy to find a compound word in Japanese but we have difficulties in segmenting it into constituent words as well as determining its syntactic or semantic structure among the constituents.",
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"text": "Finding its constituents and determining the structure of a compound word is an important process in constructing practical natural language systems for machine translation, information retrieval, text summarization, etc. For the compound word fc H gait (the former president of Bank of Japan), for instance, there are six lexically possible segmentations: 7-E/ H I iei g , 7GI 19 /, /en, H /*tit& H /WA, 7G H /e/It and 5---C H / ;F /glia, the correct segmentation here being 7c(former)/ H (Bank of Japan)/a ot (president).",
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"text": "Standing alone, the word segmentation is useful in many areas of natural language processing. However, we should know how the constituents in a compound word are combined to make the meaning, say, for its translation into foreign languages. 7G/19 \"d /km has two probable dependency structures: (CAM H )(a4 ))) and (((A)( H ))(M)). The former leads to the meaning of the former president of Bank of Japan and the latter the president of former Bank of Japan. The problem is how can we arrive at the structure, ((i-E)(( H 1A1F)(atit))).",
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"text": "In this paper we offer a method for analyzing the structure of compound words in Japanese. In Section 2 describes some previous work done for a compound word on the identification of constituents and determination of its structure. We propose a method and subsequently an algorithm in Section 3 for analyzing the structure of compound words using the strength of association measures among the constituent words. In Section 4 conducts experiments for our method and others, and compares the results. Finally, we conclude the paper with some remarks in Section 5.",
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"text": "We have two tasks in the analysis of a compound word: identification of its constituents and then the determination of its structure. Our present interest lies in the latter task.",
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"text": "There are numerous studies on the identification for the constituents of a compound word. To mention a few, Miyazaki et al. (1984) used a handcrafted, rule-based method and a technique of ambiguity resolution for segmenting a compound word. Takeda and Fujisaki (1987) segmented kanji compound words using Markov Model. Utiyama and Itahashi (1992) divided a compound noun expressed in hiragana characters into component nouns based on word co-occurrence relation. In recent ones, Shimohata et al. (1997) and Fujii et al. (1999) segmented a compound word into its constituents employing simple heuristics based mainly on the features of Japanese character types. Han et al. (2001a) devised a segmentation strategy using contextual information from a corpus.",
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"text": "Relatively few studies are available on the determination of dependency structure of a compound word. Nishino and Fujisaki (1988) attempted to analyze the structure of a kanji compound word using a probabilistic CFG. Miyazaki et al. (1993) used a large amount of handcrafted rules and resolved the ambiguities on semantic structure in compound words.",
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"text": "These studies are all rule-based and have obvious deficiencies. Obtaining rules is time-consuming process to begin with. Then rules are limited, fixed and not easily extendable.",
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"text": "Recently the researchers have turned to corpus and statistical means to analyzing the structure of compound words. Along this line, Kobayasi et al. (1994) built dependency trees for a compound word, calculated the likelihood of each tree structure using collocational information on its constituents extracted from a corpus, and selected the one with the highest likelihood value as the correct structure of the compound word. In this process, they used a thesaurus and got the collocational data through its classes to which each constituent of a compound word belongs.",
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"text": "Using a similar method, Hisamitsu and Nitta (1996) , in an analysis of compound words extracted from news articles,, tried to overcome a deficiency in the study of Kobayasi et al. that it could not deal with abbreviated words or, for that matter, unknown words in the corpus used. However, the method he adapted seems restricted only to the analysis of newspaper articles.",
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"text": "Our method of analyzing the structure of a compound word is corpus-and statistics-based, too. But it is different from others in a few points. Methodologically, it uses a deterministic process. Computationally, we calculate the strength of association, for the constituent words in a compound word using mutual information-like measures and determine its correct structure by discarding less probable ones along the way. Data-wise, we use the Internet corpus to coping with data sparseness problem and getting reliable statistical information.",
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"text": "Our idea for analyzing the structure of compound words is similar to those used in various disambiguation tasks (e.g., Alves, 1996; Wu & Furugori, 1996; Karov et al., 1998) . We all use a kind of corpora and statistical means and then eliminate the more unlikely and select the more likely to get the desired result. However, the difference is that we use a deterministic process and keep discarding less likely candidates along the way we go, rather than collecting all the candidates first and then selecting the most probable one from them.",
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"text": "A compound word consists of a sequence of words. Each word in the compound word, except the rightmost one or headword, relates to, or depends semantically on, one of other words in its right more strongly than to any other words. For example, RN (Kansai) relates more strongly to (airport) than to INIA(international) in l N/111 (Kansai International Airport). We know for a Japanese compound word that the semantic dependency relations among its constituents has the following characteristics:",
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"text": "\u2022 The dependency relation that holds between two constituents is unique, i.e., no constituent relates to more than one constituent. \u2022 An element, except the headword, depends always on a constituent to its right.",
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"text": "\u2022 No dependency relations cross each other. The last characteristic is to mean that we never have dependency relations something like: A B",
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"text": "Stepl : For any word wi ( 1 i 5. n -1) in the constituent sequence, S of n words, w1w2 wn , find the word wi to which wi has the dependency relation wi-* wi (i < f ). Call the set of relations the rules, R.",
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"text": "Step2: Repeat the following 2.1 Find the handle, h, or the leftmost dependency relation in S with the minimum inter-constituent distance ( =1); Remove the handle from R.",
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"text": "2.4 If h takes a form of Ci,i+x Ci+x+1,j ( x >0), amalgamate Ci,i+x and Ci+x+1,j in S with Co 2.5 Replace the expression in R that is the same as the right side of expression in h with ci,1. until no amalgamation becomes possible.",
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"text": "Let us see how the algorithm works. Suppose the compound word to be analyzed has five constituents, w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 . Suppose also that we have found the following rules in Stepl.",
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"text": "We then find h to be w2 w3 in Step 2.1. So, we amalgamate w2 and w3 with C23 in Step 2.2 and get new S of w1 C23 w4 w5 . In Step 2.5, R is changed to:",
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"text": "With the new S and R , we go back to Step 2.1 and repeat the processes in Step 2. This time, we find h to be w1 --C23 in Step 2.1, amalgamate w1 and C23 with C13 in Step 2.3 and get C13 w4 W5 , and change R in Step 2.5 to:",
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"text": "C1,3 -\u00f7 W5 , W4 -* In the next time around, h is W4 W5 and applying the Steps 2.2 and 2.5, we get new S and R of C1,3 C4,5 and C13 -> C4,5 . Repeating Step 2 again, we get h of C1,3 C4,5 , amalgamate C13 and C45 with C15 in Step 2.4, and finally stop processing as no further amalgamation becomes possible. Table 1 shows the above processes step by step and Figure 1 the structure of the compound word analyzed. ",
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"text": "Owing to its largeness in size, the Internet corpus is expected to make the data sparseness problem less problematic than that in the use of other corpora.' In fact, it seems that we are able to access at least 42 million pages of Japanese texts using Goo2, a well-known Internet search engine that is said to be the biggest in Japan.",
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"text": "\u2022 In our algorithm to finding x ----> y in a compound word, we first find the most unacceptable constituent pair ( ,Wmua,Wn) that has the weakest strength of association in all pairs of ( wi , wn),3 where 1 i n -2.4 We then take wmua as the starting point, find wmac for which winua has the highest strength of association in the sequence of W mua+1 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 W n_i , compare ( W mua , W mac ) with ( Wmua ,Wn)9 let mac = n if ( Wmua , n ) is more acceptable, and choose the pair with bigger associa-1 Bergh et al. (1998) estimates that the Internet material published in English and accessed through the AltaVista search engine is about 25 times bigger than that in the Bank of English (320 million words), 80 times bigger than that in the BNC (100 million words), 160 times bigger than that in the CobuildDirect corpus (in its 50-million-word version), and 8000 times bigger than that in Brown and LOB corpora (one million words each). The usefulness of the Internet corpus has been proven in various linguistic applications (e.g., Mihalcea and Moldovan, 1999; Miyahira et al., 2000; Han et al., 2001b ). 2 http://goo.ne.jp 3 We try to find inner relations first by doing this. Although intuitive, we believe this is a better way of finding the structure of a compound word. 4 We do not take wn_i into account as it is obvious that we have wn_i ---> wn .",
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