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  <Title>Automatic Extraction of Aspectual Information from a Monolingual Corpus</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="358" end_page="358" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have proposed a method for classifying Japanese verbs on the basis of surface evidence from a monolingual corpus, and examined the meaning of the form -teiru by means of the classifications of verbs and adverbs.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The aspect of verb phrases provides not only the temporal configuration within a single event but also the information needed for processing temporal relation between multiple events (Dowty, 1986; Passonneau, 1988; Webber, 1988).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Furthermore, the lexical aspect of verbs is closely related with their deep complement structures which may not be directly reflected on the surface argument structures. Therefore, by combining the aspectual categories of verbs and those that are defined in terms of their surface argument structures, we can obtain an elaborate classification based on semantic types of verbs. (Preliminary experiments on this issue can be seen in (Oishi and Matsumoto, 1996).) Thus, the information obtained here can be used for various applications.</Paragraph>
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