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Table 4 Features of MTS’s entities identification

From: Building a Chinese discourse topic corpus with a micro-topic scheme based on theme-rheme theory

Name

Description

Predicate

A content word (lemma) of the predicate of each clause

Predicate class

The verb class that the predicate belongs to

Head word

String representation of head word of one clause

POS of head word

Part of speech of head word

Phrase type

Syntactic category of the constituent

Path of span

The path from the span to the nominal predicate

Position

The positional relationship of the span with the predicate, “left” or “right”

Focus word

First word and last word of the focus span

Focus span space

Is the focus span adjacent to the predicate? Yes or No

IsBrothers

Has the predicate brothers? Yes or No

IsRightBrother

Has the predicate right brother? Yes or No

Head word of right brother

The headword of the predicate’s nearest right brother

POS of right brother

The POS of the predicate’s nearest right brother

IVerb

Intervening verb itself

IVerb class

The verb class that contains IVerb

Path of IVerb

The path from the IVerb to the focus constituent

IsFocusSpArg

Is the focus span an argument for IVerb? Yes or No

Sematic role of focus

The sematic role of the focus span for IVerb

IsHNPArg

Is HNP(Hightest NP headed by the nominal predicate) an argument for IVerb? Yes or No

Sematic role of HNP

The semantic role of HNP for IVerb