<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Dear Richard, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">I agree with your two points. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">However, I want to know if a word having two labels, for example, N and V; or A and N. Should we still consider them as just one word? For example, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=ZH-TW>她美麗</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: FR"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=ZH-TW>美麗</SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=ZH-TW> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>can be an adjective and a proper name.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face="Times New Roman">In this case, should we say </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=ZH-TW>美麗</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face="Times New Roman"> is just an adjective and used as a proper name? Or, They correspond to two different word? </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Best regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Huei-Chi LIN</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR>--- En date de : <B>Mer 4.11.09, Xiao, Zhonghua <I><z.xiao@lancaster.ac.uk></I></B> a écrit :<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>De: Xiao, Zhonghua <z.xiao@lancaster.ac.uk><BR>Objet: RE: [Corpora-List] About Part of Speech in English and Chinese<BR>À: "Xing Fukun" <xingfukun001@gmail.com>, "LIN HUEI-CHI" <lin_huei_chi@yahoo.fr>, Corpora@uib.no, "Max Silberztein" <max.silberztein@gmail.com><BR>Cc: "??" <songrou@blcu.edu.cn><BR>Date: Mercredi 4 Novembre 2009, 12h34<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Hello Fukun,<BR><BR><BR><BR>A proper noun is also a noun. If "noun" is Level-1 tag in a tagset, a proper noun can be analysed as a Level-2 tag, though some Chinese taggers make more fine-grained distinctions (e.g. person name, place name, country name, language name, organisation name), which are all Level-2 tags under the Level-1 tag "noun".<BR><BR><BR><BR>In the Chinese example "yi jian baozhuang jingmei de1 lipin" (a gift with a beautiful package), baozhuang is a clearly a noun, or to be precise, a verb used as a noun in context (to be tagged as VN). It cannot possibly be a verb because adverbials go before the verb they modify in Chinese. If the example is rewritten as "yi jian baozhuang de3 shifen jingmei de1 lipin" (a gift which is beautifully packed), then baozhuang "pack" is a verb while "shifen jingmei" (very beautiful) is a complement (i.e. the de structure). <BR><BR><BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR><BR><BR>Richard
Xiao<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From: <A href="http://fr.mc232.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=corpora-bounces@uib.no" ymailto="mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no">corpora-bounces@uib.no</A> on behalf of Xing Fukun<BR>Sent: Wed 04/11/2009 01:26<BR>To: LIN HUEI-CHI; <A href="http://fr.mc232.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Corpora@uib.no" ymailto="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</A>; Max Silberztein<BR>Cc: ??<BR>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] About Part of Speech in English and Chinese<BR><BR><BR>Hi Huei-Chi,<BR> I agree that "??" in this sentence can be tagged as noun or proper noun. Whether the ambiguity can be resolved depended on the rule. If you have a rule to tag it as a noun or proper noun in such contexts the ambiguity will be solved consistently and it doesn't affect the analysis of the phrase structure. It is not the same in the following phrase.<BR><BR>>2) The sentence ?? ?? ?? ? ?? is a NP whose
structure is [[?M ?Q [?? V [??A ? DE ??N]]]] NP. So, the word ?? should be tagged as verb.<BR><BR>How do you parse the following 2 phrases and what is the relation between "??" and "??","??"and"??".<BR><BR>?? ?? ?? ? ??<BR><BR>?? ?? ?? ? ??<BR><BR><BR><BR>BTW, my analysis of the structure of ?? ?? ?? ? ?? is :<BR><BR>[??M [[[??N V ??A] ?DE] ??N]]NP<BR><BR><BR><BR>Best<BR><BR>Fukun<BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>Xing Fukun<BR>2009-11-04<BR>________________________________<BR><BR>???: LIN HUEI-CHI<BR>????: 2009-11-04 08:39:31<BR>???: <A href="http://fr.mc232.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Corpora@uib.no" ymailto="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</A><BR>??: <A href="http://fr.mc232.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xingfukun001@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:xingfukun001@gmail.com">xingfukun001@gmail.com</A>; Max Silberztein<BR>??: About Part of Speech in English and Chinese<BR><BR>Hello, <BR><BR>I suggest two response for your questions:
<BR><BR>1) Some ambiguities still cannot be solved. For example, the sentence ???? can be tagged by two ways: <BR><BR>? ?P ?V ?? N <BR><BR>? ? P? V ?? NPR <BR><BR>The word ?? can be a noun and a proper noun. <BR><BR>2) The sentence ?? ?? ?? ? ?? is a NP whose structure is [[?M ?Q [?? V [??A ? DE ??N]]]] NP. So, the word ?? should be tagged as verb. <BR><BR>Huei-Chi LIN <BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>