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Resolution of Verb Ellipsis in Japanese Sentence using Surface Expressions and Examples

Computation and Language 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

Verbs are sometimes omitted in Japanese sentences. It is necessary to recover omitted verbs for purposes of language understanding, machine translation, and conversational processing. This paper describes a practical way to recover omitted verbs by using surface expressions and examples. We experimented the resolution of verb ellipses by using this information, and obtained a recall rate of 73% and a precision rate of 66% on test sentences.

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@article{arxiv.cs/9912006,
  title  = {Resolution of Verb Ellipsis in Japanese Sentence using Surface Expressions and Examples},
  author = {M. Murata and M. Nagao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/9912006},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 0 figures. Computation and Language