Analysis and Reconstrution of Dictionary Definition Units.
Chung Won Seo, Key‐Sun Choi · NLPRS · 2001
In this paper, we analyze the dictionary definitions of verbs for finding units of a definition, and study the reconstruction of the dictionary definitions without ambiguity. For finding units of the definition, we analyze the dependency structures of definitions and make a relation between main verb and other syntactic units. We build a hierarchical structure by using the relation between a headword and a main verb of its definition. From that result, we reduce the verbs in the order of frequency to basic verbs that define other verbs. In the dictionary definitions, the uses of conjunctive verb endings are limited in their meanings. We restrict the use of conjunctive verb endings because they contain many errors and ambiguities in syntax and semantics. From the restricted conjunctive verb endings, we reconstruct the dictionary definitions without ambiguity.