Semantic Verb Classes in the Analysis of Head Gapping in Japanese Relative Clauses
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This paper describes an attempt to identify case gapping instances of Japanese relative clauses, and disambiguate the case slot from which the gapping occurred. The method utilised relies principally on surface syntactic pattern matching, combined with adjunct-based verb classification and minimal semantic analysis of the head. Experimentation produced an 90% accuracy in identifying and disambiguating case gapping instances, and 95% accuracy for the isolated task of gapping type disambiguation.
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