2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Practical Research for Lexical Illustration of the Actual Use of Words and Specification Standardization for their Lexical Description

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520428
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	The National Institute for Japanese Language
Principal Investigator	KASHINO Wakako The National Institute for Japanese Language, 言語資源研究系, 准教授 (50311147)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	用例 / 辞書 / 国語辞典 / コーパス
Research Abstract	As computational extraction of word uses from large language databases is becoming popular, manual analysis is becoming even more important in order to accumulate useful pieces of information from huge volumes of automatically stored text data. This study therefore addressed standardization of lexical description, and determined a set of standard processes for the use-case analysis and lexical description, clarifying specifications required for lexical description of word use. Furthermore, based on a newly-compiled large-scale Japanese corpus (BCCWJ), statistical analysis for Katakana representation for Japanese native words and ancient words was performed.