Generating Derivational Relations for the Japanese WordNet: The Case of Agentive Nouns

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This paper presents work in progress on the development of derivational links for the Japanese WordNet, with a focus on the retrieval, validation and elaboration of nouns and verbs linked by the agentive noun derivation. 2,340 such links are generated, of which we validated 833 such pairs. We briefly discuss some challenges in determining valid link pairs as well as their morphosemantic natures. We also consider the possibilities and challenges of automating the discovery of morphosemantic links, by linking our results with current theoretical issues in agentive nominais. In addition, we are currently corroborating these Japanese agentive derivations with English counterparts from the Princeton WordNet and intend to perform a more rigorous cross-lingual comparison.

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