Constructing a Syntactic-Semantic Information Dictionary of Predicates Oriented to Korean Information Processing

In any NLP systems, including that of MT, syntactic and semantic information dictionary is an essential component. Based on the achievements in semantic project studies both at home and abroad, the present paper provides an integrative description of the syntax and semantics of Korean predicates, with an aim to construct an information-processing-oriented dictionary of syntactic and semantic information. The semantic framework is drawn from theta structure theory and semantic field theory. We begin with a semantic classification of Korean predicates, which is followed by a detailed description of the semantic properties of these predicates. And in the construction of the dictionary, we integrate syntactic and semantic properties in a structural way.