The Floating of Negative Factors and the Recognition of Semantic Patterns of HUAIYI Sentences in Mandarin

The Floating of Negative Factors and the Recognition of Semantic Patterns of HUAIY I Sentences in Mandarin Xiao Guozheng, Guo Tingting Dept.of Chinese Wuhan University Wuhan, P.R.china gzxiao@ccnu.edu.cn; guogaott@sohu.com Abstract Negative factors and their floating are the semantic marks of objective identification of the meaning of huaiyi and sub-categorization of sentence patterns of the huaiyi sentences. This article discusses negative factors, the floating of negative factors and recognition of different patterns of huaiyi sentences. It has also bee argued that there is an operational mark of syntactic-semantic generalization which functions to identify the semantic patterns of sentences, and demonstrated the nature and use of this kind of mark. We argue that more reliable connection can be established between human beings and computers. Some related theoretical and methodological issues are also addressed in this article. 1 Introduction 1.1 The usual method of natural language understanding is from form to meaning or meaning to meaning. In some language with developed-forms, different semantic patterns can be distinguished by different forms (inflections). Form is the natural formal mark of semantic understanding of sentences. However, semantic patterns are various, it's impossible for any language to have enough forms to mark all its semantic patterns. Thus it's important to explore the combined-marks of forms and form-meaning synthesis marks in our study. 1.2 In the viewpoint of philosophy, generality is the abstraction of individual on one hand, individual reflects generality on the other hand. So, from generality to individual or from individual to individual are two feasible ways of exploring combined-marks of forms and form-meaning synthetic- marks. This article adopts the latter. Based on the exploration of form-meaning synthetic- marks and recognition program of semantic patterns of huaiyi sentences, this paper tries to build a bridge, which is friendly to people as well as to computer in the process of semantic understanding. 1.3 Semantic recognition includes sentence meaning recognition and semantic patterns recognition. The semantic understanding of a sentences lies on the accomplishment of these two sides. However, in the our viewpoint, we can only solve one problem. This paper discusses the semantic patterns recognition of huaiyi 362 sentence and the relative theoretical issues. 2 Huaiyi Sentence and Its Negative Factors 2.1 Huaiyi sentence is the sentence whose predicate or object is huaiyi. e.g. (1) Ith---AMI/M.K.� (3) aintifiA/141.�(2) A&*:_=_I&14, RA-LbOtl. (4) ithffE3VNAA-16)E. (5) it'WEI:Mffn, Based on our study, the signification of huaiyi can be described as follows: huaiyi1=distrust; huaiyi2=suspect; huaiyi3=uncertain, puzzle. Different meanings of huaiyi reflect different semantic patterns of huaiyi sentences. For example, the meaning of huaiyi in e.g. (1) and (2) is huaiyi 1, the corresponding sentences meaning are He distrusts Xiao zhang all the time and I don't believe they can win three gold medal this time. the meaning of huaiyi in e.g. (3)and(4) is huaiyi2, the corresponding sentences meaning are I suspect that he is a thief and I suspect that this guy is unreliable. the meaning of huaiyi in e.g. (5) is huaiyi3, the corresponding sentence meaning is I was puzzled that …

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