Semi-Automatic Construction Of Korean-Chinese Verb Patterns Based On Translation Equivalency

This paper addresses a new method of constructing Korean-Chinese verb patterns from existing patterns. A verb pattern is a subcategorization frame of a predicate extended by translation information. Korean-Chinese verb patterns are invaluable linguistic resources that only used for Korean-Chinese transfer but also for Korean parsing. Usually a verb pattern has been either hand-coded by expert lexicographers or extracted automatically from bilingual corpus. In the first case, the dependence on the linguistic intuition of lexicographers may lead to the incompleteness and the inconsistency of a dictionary. In the second case, extracted patterns can be domain-dependent. In this paper, we present a method to construct KoreanChinese verb patterns semiautomatically from existing KoreanChinese verb patterns that are manually written by lexicographers.