Introduction: Advancing linguistic politeness theory by using Chinese data

Understanding of linguistic politeness

Communication is an act of cooperation between two or more partners (Grice, 1975), and people normally assume that their communicators would speak in a way that is maximally truthful and informative. Imagine two people in a conversation, Tom and Sally, who are talking about pets they own. Tom says to Sally: “I have two dogs.” Assuming that Tom is a cooperative speaker, and that Sally also belie...

Advancing Traffic Flow Theory Using Empirical Microscopic Data

Linguistic Linked Data in Chinese: The Case of Chinese Wordnet

The present study describes recent developments of Chinese Wordnet, which has been reformatted using the lemon model and published as part of the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud. While lemon suffices for modeling most of the structures in Chinese Wordnet at the lexical level, the model does not allow for finergrained distinction of a word sense, or meaning facets, a linguistic feature also at...

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Chinese Word Segmentation Using Minimal Linguistic Knowledge

This paper presents a primarily data-driven Chinese word segmentation system and its performances on the closed track using two corpora at the first international Chinese word segmentation bakeoff. The system consists of a new words recognizer, a base segmentation algorithm, and procedures for combining single characters, suffixes, and checking segmentation consistencies.