Constructing a Database of Japanese Lexical Properties : Outlining its Basic Framework and Initial Components1
Terry Joyce, 尚史 増田, Bor Hodošček · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2016
In order to be able to conduct meaningful research into all aspects of language, it is essential for language science and cognitive science researchers to have practicalaccess to an increasingly wider range of detailed and contemporary information about their target languages. Against that background, this paper presents a short overview summary of an ongoing project to construct a largescale database of Japanese lexical properties (JLP). More specifically, after outlining the concurrent construction of the ontology of Japanese lexical properties (JLP-O; Joyce & Hodošček, 2014), which provides the basic guiding framework for the JLP database construction project, the paper also outlines the initial core components of the JLP database, with particular emphasis on two of those components;namely, a database of semantic transparency (ST) ratings for approximately 10,000 two-kanji compound words and some initial results for the extraction and automatic analyses of the word structures of both three- and fourkanji compound words.