Corpus-Based Analysis of the Co-occurrence of Chinese Antonym Pairs

摘要：

Chinese antonym pairs pattern differently than antonyms in English. The opposites in a Chinese antonym pair often co-occur in a sentence. In a phenomenon unique to Chinese, most antonym pairs provide a good basis for the formation of fourcharacter phrases. The opposites in a pair can usually be interpolated by an arbitrary number of characters to form new larger collocations, in such a way that the same number of characters precedes or follows each element of the antonym pair to keep the new collocation symmetric. All compounds and phrases with Chinese antonym pairs have the expanded form of a+X+b+!X, where !X denotes the opposite of X, a and b are the interpolated elements having the same character length. In our work, we characterized patterning of the interpolated elements and analyzed typical interpolations of one character in canonical Chinese antonym pairs, and identified the patterns involved in the separation and linkage of the antonym pairs.

关键词： antonym pairs co-occurrence CCL corpus

作者: Xingfu Wang Zhongfu Wu Yan Li Qian Huang Jinglu Hui

作者单位: Research Center of Language, Cognition and Language Application,Chongqing University College of Comp College of Computer Sciences, Chongqing University College of Foreign Languages, Chongqing University College of Foreign Languages, Chongqing University School of Foreign Languages, Nanyang Normal Unive

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 6th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications(第六届先进数据挖掘及应用国际会议 ADMA 2010)

会议地点: 重庆

会议语种:英文

页码: 500-507

在线出版日期: 2010-11-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）