The NLP-Oriented Empty Categories
Authors
Aiping Tu
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Aiping Tu
Available Online September 2012.
- DOI
- 10.2991/emeit.2012.390How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- NLP-oriented, empty categories, nominal, verbal, prepositional.
- Abstract
Empty Categories are expressions which are base-generated in the deep structure and have no overt phonetic form in the surface structure. As for computers, it is difficult to make clear where and what the empty categories are. Therefore, revealing the empty categories is essential to the nature language processing (NLP). Chinese does not only have nominal empty categories, but also verbal and prepositional empty categories. This article proves the existence of these two non-nominal empty categories in Chinese, and further points out where and what the empty categories are.
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- © 2012, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Aiping Tu PY - 2012/09 DA - 2012/09 TI - The NLP-Oriented Empty Categories BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Electronic & Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology (EMEIT 2012) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1761 EP - 1764 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/emeit.2012.390 DO - 10.2991/emeit.2012.390 ID - Tu2012/09 ER -