The Hinoki Sensebank - A Large-Scale Word Sense Tagged Corpus Of Japanese

While there has been considerable research on both structural annotation (such as the Penn Treebank (Taylor et al., 2003) or the Kyoto Corpus (Kurohashi and Nagao, 2003)) and semantic annotation (e.g. Senseval: Kilgariff and Rosenzweig, 2000; Shirai, 2002), there are almost no corpora that combine both. This makes it difficult to carry out research on the interaction between syntax and semantics. Projects such as the Penn Propbank are adding structural semantics (i.e. predicate argument structure) to syntactically annotated corpora, but not lexical semantic information (i.e. word senses). Other corpora, such as the English Redwoods Corpus (Oepen et al., 2002), combine both syntactic and structural semantics in a monostratal representation, but still have no lexical semantics. In this paper we discuss the (lexical) semantic annotation for the Hinoki Corpus, which is part of a larger project in psycho-linguistic and computational linguistics ultimately aimed at language understanding (Bond et al., 2004).