Building a List of Synonymous Words and Phrases of Japanese Compound Verbs

Towards linking synonymous expressions of compound verbs to Japanese WordNet

This paper describes our project on Japanese compound verbs. Japanese “Verb (adnominal form) + Verb” compounds, which are treated as single verbs, frequently appear in daily communication. They are not sufficiently regis…

Constructing a Corpus of Japanese Predicate Phrases for Synonym/Antonym Relations

We construct a large corpus of Japanese predicate phrases for synonym-antonym relations. The corpus consists of 7,278 pairs of predicates such as “receive-permission (ACC)” vs. “obtain-permission (ACC)”, in which each pr…

Patent NMT integrated with Large Vocabulary Phrase Translation by SMT at WAT 2017

Neural machine translation (NMT) cannot handle a larger vocabulary because the training complexity and decoding complexity proportionally increase with the number of target words. This problem becomes even more serious w…

Neural Machine Translation Model with a Large Vocabulary Selected by Branching Entropy

Neural machine translation (NMT), a new approach to machine translation, has achieved promising results comparable to those of traditional approaches such as statistical machine translation (SMT). Despite its recent succ…

Evaluating Features for Identifying Japanese-Chinese Bilingual Synonymous Technical Terms from Patent Families