Comments on Usage of the Abbreviation “MS” and the Japanese Abbreviation “Masu”

Chinese Abbreviation Identification Using Abbreviation-Template

Chinese abbreviations are frequently used without being defined, which has brought much difficulty into NLP. In this study, the definition-independent abbreviation identification problem is proposed and resolved as a classification task in which abbreviation candidates are classified as either ‘abbreviation’ or ‘non-abbreviation’ according to the posterior probability. To meet our aim of identi...

A Discriminative Approach to Japanese Abbreviation Extraction

This paper addresses the difficulties in recognizing Japanese abbreviations through the use of previous approaches, examining actual usages of parenthetical expressions in newspaper articles. In order to bridge the gap between Japanese abbreviations and their full forms, we present a discriminative approach to abbreviation recognition. More specifically, we formalize the abbreviation recognitio...

Abbreviation Generation for Japanese Multi-Word Expressions

on translation of phatic communion and socio-cultural relationships between the characters of the novels

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...

Chinese Abbreviation Identification Using Abbreviation-Template Features and Context Information

Chinese abbreviations are frequently used without being defined, which has brought much difficulty into NLP. In this study, the definitionindependent abbreviation identification problem is proposed and resolved as a classification task in which abbreviation candidates are classified as either ‘abbreviation’ or ‘non-abbreviation’ according to the posterior probability. To meet our aim of identif...