Semantic Classification of Adverbial Nouns Based on Syntactic Treebank and Construction of Collocation Database

Being an adverbial is a grammatical function of a small number of nouns. The nouns act as the adverbial and the subject are located before the predicate, and there is no formal mark, therefore, it is easy to cause syntax parsing mistakes. Meanwhile, there is a lack of semantic resources of adverbial nouns at this stage which makes it more difficult to do related semantic parsing. We extracted the “noun + verb/adjective” collocation corpora from a large-scale structure tree database. By writing code and manually proofreading, nouns that can act as the adverbial to directly modify verbs or adjectives which are also called the adverbial nouns are listed exhaustively. We conducted a comprehensive classification and quantitative analysis according to the semantics expressed by the adverbial nouns, and constructed an “adverbial noun-verb/adjective” collocation database based on this, so as to improve the accuracy of syntactic parsing and provide corresponding semantic information, and also to provide reference for the related research of linguistics.