Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

Study on the revision of thesaurus based on the theoretical improvement to the vocabulary classification

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

YAMAZAKI Makoto
KASHINO Wakako
TAJIMA Ikudo
YAMAMOTO Hirohumi
UCHIYAMA Kiyoko
SUNAOKA Kazuko
SEOL Guen-Soo
HAN Yu-Suk

Grant number

24520520

Japan Grant Number (JGN)

JP24520520

Grant amount

(Total): 4,940,000 Japanese Yen
(Direct funding): 3,800,000 Japanese Yen
(Indirect funding): 1,140,000 Japanese Yen

In order to promote the use of thesaurus in the Japanese linguistics, we annotated the useful information to the "Bunrui Goihyo (Word List by Semantic Principle, revised and enlarged edition)" which is the most popular thesaurus among Japanese linguists. Based on our original criteria, we chose the "representative meaning" of the 27,171 polysemic words which appears more than one semantic cluster in Bunrui Goihyo.The annotated thesaurus is due to be released in July 2015 on the web. Using this thesaurus, it will be possible to improve the precision of semantic analysis and make appropriate comparison between different analyses. We also examined the differences between old and new versions of Bunrui Goihyo. The result was reported in the Journal of the Study of Vocabulary Vol.12.

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