Sketching the Dependency Relations of Words in Chinese

Sketching the Dependency Relations of Words in Chinese

We proposes a language resource by automatically sketching grammatical relations of words based on dependency parses from untagged texts. The advantage of word sketch based on parsed corpora is, compared to Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff, Rychly, Smrz, & Tugwell, 2004), to provide more details about the different usage of each word such as various types of modification, which is also important in language pedagogy. Although some language resources of other languages have attempted to sketch words based on parsed data, in Chinese we have not seen a resource for dependency sketch of words in customized texts. Therefore, we propose such a resource and evaluate with Chinese Sketch Engine (Huang et al., 2005) in terms of corresponding thesaurus function.