Parsing korean honorification phenomena in a typed feature structure grammar

Jong Bok Kim, Peter Sells, Jaehyung Yang

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Abstract

Honorific agreement is one of the main properties of languages like Korean or Japanese, playing an important role in appropriate communication. This makes the deep processing of honorific information crucial in various computational applications such as spoken language translation and generation. We argue that, contrary to the previous literature, an adequate analysis of Korean honorification involves a system that has access not only to morpho-syntax but to semantics and pragmatics as well. Along these lines, we have developed a typed feature structure grammar of Korean (based on the framework of HPSG), and implemented it in the Linguistic Knowledge Builder (LKB). The results of parsing our experimental test suites show that our grammar provides us with enriched grammatical information that can lead to the development of a robust dialogue system for the language.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence - 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages254-265
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540346287, 9783540346289
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006 - Quebec City, Que., Canada
Duration: 7 Jun 20069 Jun 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4013 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City, Que.
Period7/06/069/06/06

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