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Common address terms as an important part of daily communication have been studied with qualitative methods. Inspired by previous methods, this paper proposes a novel method based on word embedding to study the dynamic evolution of common address terms in Chinese. In particular, we first obtained the relevant words of address terms by calculating the distance between word embeddings based on People’s Daily Corpus (1948–2017), then studied the laws of semantic changes of fictive kinship terms and non-kinship terms which belong to common address terms in Chinese through the related words. The results showed that there were significant differences between them.
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This work is supported by National Language Committee Research Program of China (No. ZDI135-42), Research and Development of Question Answering for Intelligent Robots (230200001) and China Scholarship Council.
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Jiang, Y., Liu, Z., Yang, L. (2018). The Dynamic Evolution of Common Address Terms in Chinese Based on Word Embedding. In: Hong, JF., Su, Q., Wu, JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_40
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