Yusuke Kubota


2020

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Development of a General-Purpose Categorial Grammar Treebank
Yusuke Kubota | Koji Mineshima | Noritsugu Hayashi | Shinya Okano
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

This paper introduces ABC Treebank, a general-purpose categorial grammar (CG) treebank for Japanese. It is ‘general-purpose’ in the sense that it is not tailored to a specific variant of CG, but rather aims to offer a theory-neutral linguistic resource (as much as possible) which can be converted to different versions of CG (specifically, CCG and Type-Logical Grammar) relatively easily. In terms of linguistic analysis, it improves over the existing Japanese CG treebank (Japanese CCGBank) on the treatment of certain linguistic phenomena (passives, causatives, and control/raising predicates) for which the lexical specification of the syntactic information reflecting local dependencies turns out to be crucial. In this paper, we describe the underlying ‘theory’ dubbed ABC Grammar that is taken as a basis for our treebank, outline the general construction of the corpus, and report on some preliminary results applying the treebank in a semantic parsing system for generating logical representations of sentences.

2019

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Probing the nature of an island constraint with a parsed corpus
Yusuke Kubota | Ai Kubota
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 18, 2019 - Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing

This paper presents a case study of the use of the NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) for syntactic research. NPCMJ is the first phrase structure-based treebank for Japanese that is specifically designed for application in linguistic (in addition to NLP) research. After discussing some basic methodological issues pertaining to the use of treebanks for theoretical linguistics research, we introduce our case study on the status of the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) in Japanese, showing that NPCMJ enables us to easily retrieve examples that support one of the key claims of Kubota and Lee (2015): that the CSC should be viewed as a pragmatic, rather than a syntactic constraint. The corpus-based study we conducted moreover revealed a previously unnoticed tendency that was highly relevant for further clarifying the principles governing the empirical data in question. We conclude the paper by briefly discussing some further methodological issues brought up by our case study pertaining to the relationship between linguistic research and corpus development.

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Underspecification and interpretive parallelism in Dependent Type Semantics
Yusuke Kubota | Koji Mineshima | Robert Levine | Daisuke Bekki
Proceedings of the IWCS 2019 Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures

2003

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A Constraint-Based Analysis of Association with Focus in Japanese
Yusuke Kubota
Proceedings of the 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation