Annotating the Predicate-Argument Structure of Chinese Nominalizations
Nianwen Xue · 2006
This paper describes the Chinese NomBank Project, the goal of which is to annotate the predicate-argument structure of nominalized predicates in Chinese.The Chinese Nombank extends the general framework of the English and Chinese Proposition Banks to the annotation of nominalized predicates and adds a layer of semantic annotation to the Chinese Treebank.We first outline the scope of the work by discussing the markability of the nominalized predicates and their arguments.We then attempt to provide a categorization of the distribution of the arguments of nominalized predicates.We also discuss the relevance of the event/result distinction to the annotation of nominalized predicates and the phenomenon of incorporation.Finally we discuss some cross-linguistic differences between English and Chinese.