COMPOUND NOUN RANGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND ITS METHOD

摘要

PURPOSE: A compound noun decision apparatus and method thereof are provided to determine the sphere range of a compound noun by determining a semantic relation between nouns according to a semantic relation within a sentence. CONSTITUTION: A noun range recognition unit(102) selects a phrase binding target noun according to morpheme analysis result of the inputted sentence. A semantic relation decision unit(106) uses a semantic constraint condition and analyzes semantic relation between noun and verb. A noun range decision unit(110) determines phrase range according to a decision result.