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  <Title>Semantic Annotation of Chinese Phrases Using Recursive-Graph</Title>
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5 Conclusion and Future
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Work In this paper, we propose a recursive graph based scheme for semantic annotation of Chinese phrases. This scheme can fully differentiate those Chinese phrases that comprise the same content words but with different meaning due to their different word order or some involved function words. It can also capture the hierarchical conceptual structures of Chinese phrases, which determine their main semantic information. Now, we have annotated about 5,000 Chinese phrases using this scheme. One methodological issue is that we also choose multi-character Chinese words as candidate annotation phrases. The reason is that unlike western languages, there is no clear-cut between words and phrases in Chinese, for most multi-character Chinese words, their components may also be words, and the meaning of the multi-character words tends to be strongly related with that of their component words. In this sense, the words can be treated as basic phrases. More importantly, such basic annotation examples can be more complete in the sense of coverage.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Future work will extend to 50,000 Chinese phrases. Another future work is to learn the rules that dete~ne the mapping between linguistic forms and meanings based on this annotation, and apply the rules to new phrases and sentences. If this can be successful, we can develop a semantic analyzer for Chinese without any syntactic analysis. In particular, we can avoid part-of-speeches or syntactic structures that have long been difficult notions for Chinese languages.</Paragraph>
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