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<Paper uid="W04-1117">
  <Title>A Large-Scale Semantic Structure for Chinese Sentences</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Motivated by a systematic analysis of Chinese semantic relationships, we constructed a Chinese semantic framework based on surface syntactic relationships, deep semantic relationships and feature structure to express dependencies between lexical meanings and conceptual structures, and relations that underlie those lexical meanings. Analyzing the semantic representations of 10000 Chinese sentences, we provide a model of semantically and syntactically annotated sentences from which reliable information on combinatorial possibilities of each semantic item targeted for analysis can be displayed.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We also propose a semantic argument - head relation, 'basic conceptual structure' and the 'Head-Driven Principle'. Our results show that we can successfully disambiguate some troublesome sentences, and minimize the redundancy in language knowledge descriptions for natural language processing.</Paragraph>
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