The Hinoki Treebank A Treebank for Text Understanding

In this paper we describe the motivation for and construction of a new Japanese lexical resource: the Hinoki treebank. The treebank is built from dictionary definition sentences, and uses an HPSG grammar to encode the syntactic and semantic information. We then show how this treebank can be used to extract thesaurus information from definition sentences in a language-neutral way using minimal recursion semantics.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IJCNLP
• Authors: Francis Bond, Sanae Fujita, Chikara Hashimoto, Kaname Kasahara, Shigeko Nariyama, Eric Nichols, Akira Ohtani, Takaaki Tanaka, Shigeaki Amano
• Keywords: Definition Sentences, Hinoki Treebank, IJCNLP 2004, Japanese Lexical Resource