Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis

Polysyllablization, closely related to phonetics, semantics, and syntactics, is one of the fundamental trends in the development of Chinese lexis. However, with lots of uncertainties in the historical evolution of Chinese language, the quantitative modeling and reconstruction of polysyllablization r...

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Main Authors:	Bing Qiu, Jie Li
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:	Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/123983

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spelling	doaj-7f72b6c87c244e109ef23f606822c1832020-11-24T21:00:23ZengHindawi LimitedJournal of Applied Mathematics1110-757X1687-00422014-01-01201410.1155/2014/123983123983Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese LexisBing Qiu0Jie Li1College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, ChinaCollege of Software, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475001, ChinaPolysyllablization, closely related to phonetics, semantics, and syntactics, is one of the fundamental trends in the development of Chinese lexis. However, with lots of uncertainties in the historical evolution of Chinese language, the quantitative modeling and reconstruction of polysyllablization remain open questions. Based on the Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Words, a mapping from the words to their time of occurrence is built. With the inverse mapping on random samples, the newly produced words with different numbers of syllables in different time periods are obtained. Finally the total quadratic variation minimization model is adopted to estimate the trend of polysyllablization. As a novel exploration in the computational linguistics, the results agree with the stage division of historical Chinese and answer some difficult questions related to polysyllablization in a quantitative manner.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/123983
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title	Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis
title_short	Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis
title_full	Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis
title_fullStr	Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis
title_full_unstemmed	Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis
title_sort	reconstruction of uncertain historical evolution of the polysyllablization of chinese lexis
publisher	Hindawi Limited
series	Journal of Applied Mathematics
issn	1110-757X 1687-0042
publishDate	2014-01-01
description	Polysyllablization, closely related to phonetics, semantics, and syntactics, is one of the fundamental trends in the development of Chinese lexis. However, with lots of uncertainties in the historical evolution of Chinese language, the quantitative modeling and reconstruction of polysyllablization remain open questions. Based on the Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Words, a mapping from the words to their time of occurrence is built. With the inverse mapping on random samples, the newly produced words with different numbers of syllables in different time periods are obtained. Finally the total quadratic variation minimization model is adopted to estimate the trend of polysyllablization. As a novel exploration in the computational linguistics, the results agree with the stage division of historical Chinese and answer some difficult questions related to polysyllablization in a quantitative manner.
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Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis

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