Word Class Ratios and Genres in Written Japanese: Revisiting the Modifier Verb Ratio
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.1.2.53-62Keywords:
BCCWJ, MVR, bagplot, genre, Long Unit WordsAbstract
This paper explores the variability of genres in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese using the modifier-verb ratio proposed by Kabashima and Jukaku (1965). Using bagplots to quantifying the relation between noun and modifier-verb ratios, as well as some summary statistics obtain from them, we attempt to classify genres according to Kabashima and Jugaku (1965). Our initial analysis confirms previous research results, while at the same time uncovering some contradictions in the ratios of the genre of magazines.
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Kudo, T. (2011, July 20). MeCab: yet another part-of-speech and morphological analyzer. Retrieved from http://mecab.sourceforge.net/
Maekawa, K. (2007). Kotonoha and BCCWJ: development of a balanced corpus of contemporary written Japanese. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and Culture (Vol. 2, pp. 158 ‒177). Corpora and Language Research. Seoul.
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Wolf, P., & Bielefeld, U. (2011, July 20). Aplpack: another plot package: stem.leaf, bagplot, faces, spin3r, and some slider functions. R package version 1.2.3. Retrieved from http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=aplpack
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HODOŠČEK, B. (2011). Word Class Ratios and Genres in Written Japanese: Revisiting the Modifier Verb Ratio. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 1(2), 53–62. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.1.2.53-62
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