WWW-based Figurative Descriptions for Japanese Word

Figurative and Literal Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect in Japanese

It is well-know that the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE) is activated by mental simulation triggered by visual or linguistic stimuli (Glenberg and Kaschak 2002 and many others). However, no study has compared the extent of ACE activated by literal and figurative understanding of honorific Japanese verbs. Two experiments, consisting of 59 Japanese university students was conducted usi...

Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using The WWW

This paper presents a novel unsupervised methodology for automatic disambiguation of nouns found in unrestricted corpora. The proposed method is based on extending the context of a target word by querying the web, and then measuring the overlap of the extended context with the topic signatures of the different senses by using Bayes rule. The algorithm is evaluated on Semcor 2.0. The evaluation ...

Intersecting Word Vectors to Take Figurative Language to New Heights

This paper proposes a technique to create figurative relationships using Mikolov et al.’s word vectors. Drawing on existing work on figurative language, we start with a pair of words and use the intersection of word vector similarity sets to blend the distinct semantic spaces of the two words. We conduct preliminary quantitative and qualitative observations to compare the use of this novel inte...

Japanese honorifics as emotive definite descriptions

Harada (1976) identifies honorifics as one of “the salient features of the Japanese language” (p. 500) and provides an extensive overview of pressing syntactic issues surrounding this system. But he remains noncommittal about the semantic contribution of these morphemes; the question of what honorifics mean, what they contribute to a discourse, is left unanswered. The present paper offers an an...

Abbreviation Generation for Japanese Multi-Word Expressions