Chinese Lexical Semantics

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15 Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2014, held in Macau, China, in June 2014.

The 41 regular and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lexical semantics; applications on natural language processing; and lexical resources and corpus linguistics.

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Lexical semantics.- Embedded Compounding Monosyllabic Morphemes: a perspective from the Lexical Study and TCFL.- Word Ordering in Chinese Opposite Compounds.- Study on Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Verbal Monosyllabic-Disyllabic Synonyms.- Semantic Derivation of the " [chi] (eat) + Object" Idiom in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka.- On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese.- Combination of Mandarin Chinese Verb "xie" and Nouns from the Perspective of Generative Lexicon Theory.- The Mechanism behind Idioms' Meaning Extension.- A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Relative Antonyms.- Instantiations of the Generation Mechanism of A-not-A Question in Chinese and Some Relevant Syntactic Issues.- A Reanalysis of Chinese Passive with a Retained Object.- Quantitative Research on the Origins of Contemporary Chinese Vocabulary Based on The Great Chinese Dictionary .- The Ergativization of the Verb " "si in Chinese Language History.- Grammaticalization and Subjectivization of "Po".- On chi: its Gestalt and Collocations.- The Nature of men and Its Co-occurrence with Numeral Expressions in Mandarin Chinese.- A Study on the Causative Alternation from a Non-derivational Perspective.- The Processing of Dummy Verbs in Semantic Role Labeling.- Categorization and Intensity of Chinese Emotion Words.- Lexical Semantic Restrictions on the Syntactic Representation of the Semantic Roles of Pinjie Class.- Syntactic Distribution of Motion Agents' Concept from the Redundancy of Leg Nouns.- Investigate into the Cognitive Motivation of the Derivative Meaning of Words: The Case of Luojuan.- Applications on Natural Language Processing.- A Rule-Based Method for Identifying Patterns in Old Chinese Sentences.- Semi-supervised Sentiment Classification with Self-training on Feature Subspaces.- The Effect of Modifiers for Sentiment Analysis.- Word Relevance Computation for Noun-noun Metaphor Recognition.- Learning Semantic Similarity for Multi-Label Text Categorization.- Latent Semantic Distance between Chinese Basic Words and Non-basic Words.- Manual Investigation on Context for Word Sense Disambiguation.- Conventionalizing Common Sense for Chinese Textual Entailment Recognition.- Scale-Free Distribution in Chinese Semantic Field Network: a Main Cause of Using the Shortest Path Length for Representing Semantic Distance between Terms.- Recognition and Extraction of Honorifics in Chinese Diachronic Corpora.- A Hypothesis on Word Similarity and Its Application.- Lexical Resources and Corpus Linguistics.- Chinese Near-synonym Study Based on the Chinese Gigaword Corpus and the Chinese Learner Corpus.- Semantic Labeling of Chinese Verb-complement Structure Based on Feature Structure.- Structurally and Functionally Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles in the English Abstracts of Chinese and International Journals.- Corpus Building for the Outcome-based Education of the Ancient Chinese Courses.- Building Chinese Semantic Treebank for Patent Text on the Basis of 3 Dimensional Dynamic Concept Model.- Statistics and Analysis of Coordination Structures in Patent Text.- Syntactic Distribution, Semantic Framework, and Pragmatic Function of the Modal Adverb Meizhun (Maybe).- Preliminary Study on the Construction of Bilingual Phrase Structure Treebank.- Quantitative Analysis of "ADV+N" via Cognitive Property Knowledge base.- Annotating Principal Event Chain in Chinese Texts.- A Study on Metaphors in Idioms Based on Chinese Idiom Knowledge Base.- Generalized Case Theory and the Argument-omission Structure in Mandarin Chinese.