The paper introduces a HowNet-based disambiguator named VXY. The disambiguator effectively tackles the ambiguity in syntactic structures, e.g. “削(V)苹果(X)的 皮(Y)”, which appear highly-frequently in Chinese. The ambiguity of this kind lies in which word is governed by V in the structure, either X or Y. The HowNet-based disambiguator VXY is not merely a demonstration for the stereotypic methodology or algorithm, but a practical tool. for any structures composed by any one of the 98000 unique entries in HowNet Chinese vocabulary. Hence, the paper presents a paradigm completely different from the state-of the-art human language technology. Key wordscomputer application; Chinese information processing; semantics; disambiguator; strong government; Chinese syntactic structure; HowNet
DONG Qiang, HAO Changling, DONG Zhendong.
A HowNet-Based Disambiguator for Chinese Syntactic Structures. Journal of Chinese Information Processing. 2010, 24(1): 60-65