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  <Title>Annotating Honorifics Denoting Social Ranking of Referents</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="99" end_page="99" type="concl">
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8 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper has proposed a scheme to realise the complex linguistic phenomena of the Japanese honorifics in tangible forms for auto-processing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Ranking referents is an extremely complex task that requires a combined understanding of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in many dimensions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In future work, the referential links and their calibration need to be expanded to make an annotation more meaningful. This will be an incremental process and takes a substantial amount of work, perhaps comparable to that required in creating a thesaurus or knowledge base.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The annotated data will be a valuable resource for research on zero pronoun resolution and Machine Translation of generating Japanese sentences. As the Korean honorification system is quite similar to the Japanese, it will be feasible to make use of the approach also for Korean. Furthermore, a part of the approach can be extended as well for Chinese, since Japanese makes use of the Chinese characters.</Paragraph>
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