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The “prepositional frame” is a formal marker that can introduce the predicate argument in the form of “A*B”, where “A” is a front word, mainly a preposition, and “B” is a back word, mainly orientation words, noun words, conjunctions, verbs, and auxiliaries. The combination of front words and back words in Chinese is relatively fixed. In previous studies, scholars paid more attention to the circumstances where single prepositions are used as the marker of certain semantic components. However, prepositional frames in Chinese also function as markers of semantic components and occur at high frequencies in real life usage of language. The object introduced in the frame is often the argument of the statement verb, and both front and back words can be used as the explicit marker for argument elements. Therefore, based on previous studies, we extracted prepositional frames from the Chinese ChunkBank, semantically classified the extracted data according to the semantic role system of Wang Chengwen and opened the sources of the top 200 high-frequency frames for reference, to provide some knowledge support for both prepositional frame recognition and argument recognition in natural language processing, in this paper.
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Notes
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B refers to a back word.
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“从*看/说 (from the aspect of), 按*来/去 (according to)” and other structures, “看, 说, 来, 去”, etc. are marked as v.
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“在*时候 (at the time of)” and other structures, “时候 (time)” is marked as n.
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Pang, L., Wang, C., Wang, G., Rao, G., Xun, E. (2022). Prepositional Frame Extraction and Semantic Classification Based on Chinese ChunkBank. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13250. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06547-7_17
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