A Conceptual Model of Adjectival Modification in Chinese and Its Automatic Construction from a Machine Readable Dictionary

Abstract

In this paper, we develop previous AVS models and propose a conceptual model to represent adjectival modification in Chinese, with the emphasis laid on its polysemy. Through a method based on rough pattern, we can extract automatically this model from the corresponding senses of adjectival entries in a machine-readable dictionary. This work belongs to a family of research into the automatic compiling of CFL pedagogical e-dictionary based on Modern Chinese Standard Dictionary.