Chan Shuen-ti Roy. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-175). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.12 / Chapter 1.1. --- The nature of natural language processing --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2. --- Applications of natural language processing --- p.14 / Chapter 1.3. --- Purpose of study --- p.17 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organization of this thesis --- p.18 / Chapter 2. --- Organization and methods in natural language processing --- p.20 / Chapter 2.1. --- Organization of natural language processing system --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2. --- Methods employed --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3. --- Unification-based grammar processing --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Generalized Phase Structure Grammar (GPSG) --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3.3. --- Common drawbacks of UBGs --- p.33 / Chapter 2.4. --- Corpus-based processing --- p.34 / Chapter 2.4.1. --- Drawback of corpus-based processing --- p.35 / Chapter 3. --- Difficulties in Chinese language processing and its related works --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1. --- A glance at the history --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2. --- Difficulties in syntactic analysis of Chinese --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- Writing system of Chinese causes segmentation problem --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- Words serving multiple grammatical functions without inflection --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2.3. --- Word order of Chinese --- p.42 / Chapter 3.2.4. --- The Chinese grammatical word --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3. --- Related works --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- Unification grammar processing approach --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- Corpus-based processing approach --- p.48 / Chapter 3.4. --- Restatement of goal --- p.50 / Chapter 4. --- SERUP: Statistical-Enhanced Robust Unification Parser --- p.54 / Chapter 5. --- Step One: automatic preprocessing --- p.57 / Chapter 5.1. --- Segmentation of lexical tokens --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2. --- "Conversion of date, time and numerals" --- p.61 / Chapter 5.3. --- Identification of new words --- p.62 / Chapter 5.3.1. --- Proper nouns ´ؤ Chinese names --- p.63 / Chapter 5.3.2. --- Other proper nouns and multi-syllabic words --- p.67 / Chapter 5.4. --- Defining smallest parsing unit --- p.82 / Chapter 5.4.1. --- The Chinese sentence --- p.82 / Chapter 5.4.2. --- Breaking down the paragraphs --- p.84 / Chapter 5.4.3. --- Implementation --- p.87 / Chapter 6. --- Step Two: grammar construction --- p.91 / Chapter 6.1. --- Criteria in choosing a UBG model --- p.91 / Chapter 6.2. --- The grammar in details --- p.92 / Chapter 6.2.1. --- The PHON feature --- p.93 / Chapter 6.2.2. --- The SYN feature --- p.94 / Chapter 6.2.3. --- The SEM feature --- p.98 / Chapter 6.2.4. --- Grammar rules and features principles --- p.99 / Chapter 6.2.5. --- Verb phrases --- p.101 / Chapter 6.2.6. --- Noun phrases --- p.104 / Chapter 6.2.7. --- Prepositional phrases --- p.113 / Chapter 6.2.8. --- """Ba2"" and ""Bei4"" constructions" --- p.115 / Chapter 6.2.9. --- The terminal node S --- p.119 / Chapter 6.2.10. --- Summary of phrasal rules --- p.121 / Chapter 6.2.11. --- Morphological rules --- p.122 / Chapter 7. --- Step Three: resolving structural ambiguities --- p.128 / Chapter 7.1. --- Sources of ambiguities --- p.128 / Chapter 7.2. --- The traditional practices: an illustration --- p.132 / Chapter 7.3. --- Deficiency of current practices --- p.134 / Chapter 7.4. --- A new point of view: Wu (1999) --- p.140 / Chapter 7.5. --- Improvement over Wu (1999) --- p.142 / Chapter 7.6. --- Conclusion on semantic features --- p.146 / Chapter 8. --- "Implementation, performance and evaluation" --- p.148 / Chapter 8.1. --- Implementation --- p.148 / Chapter 8.2. --- Performance and evaluation --- p.150 / Chapter 8.2.1. --- The test set --- p.150 / Chapter 8.2.2. --- Segmentation of lexical tokens --- p.150 / Chapter 8.2.3. --- New word identification --- p.152 / Chapter 8.2.4. --- Parsing unit segmentation --- p.156 / Chapter 8.2.5. --- The grammar --- p.158 / Chapter 8.3. --- Overall performance of SERUP --- p.162 / Chapter 9. --- Conclusion --- p.164 / Chapter 9.1. --- Summary of this thesis --- p.164 / Chapter 9.2. --- Contribution of this thesis --- p.165 / Chapter 9.3. --- Future work --- p.166 / References --- p.168 / Appendix I --- p.176 / Appendix II --- p.181 / Appendix III --- p.183
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323416 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Contributors | Chan, Shuen-ti Roy., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, 184 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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