한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집 (Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference)
- 한국언어정보학회 2007년도 정기학술대회
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- Pages.136-145
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- 2007
Modality and Modal Sense Representation in E-HowNet
- Chung, You-Shan (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica) ;
- Huang, Shu-Ling (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica) ;
- Chen, Keh-Jiann (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica)
- 발행 : 2007.11.01
초록
This paper explains how we define and represent modality in E-HowNet. Following Lyons (1977, reviewed in Hsieh 2003, among others), we hold that modals express a speaker's opinion or attitude toward a proposition and hence have a pragmatic dimension and recognize five kinds of modal categories, i.e. epistemic, deontic, ability, volition and expectation modality. We then present a representational formalism that contains the three most basic components of modal meaning: modal category, positive or negative and strength. Such a formula can define not only modal words but also words that contain modal meanings and cope with co-compositions of modals and the negation construction.