Lexique-grammaire des adjectifs coréens et analyse syntaxique automatique

We present a systematic description of morphological variations and syntactic properties of Korean adjectives in order to implement an automatic parser of Korean texts. We classified 5, 300 simple adjectives according to the morpholo- gical variations of their root and inflectional suffixes. In addition, these adjectives were classified into 15 syntactic classes on the basis of formal criteria. The lexical analysis of Korean adjectives is extremely complex, since a great number of inflectional suffixes are attached to adjectival roots (an adjective generates about 6, 000 inflectional forms) ; moreover, some complements of adjectives can be found attached to adjectival roots. The fact that one must consider one or several nouns inside an adjectival string leads to a quite heavy parsing algorithm. One cannot avoid this situation without morphological and syntactic information. Therefore, it is necessary to construct on-line dictionaries as complete as possible.Nam Jee-Sun. Lexique-grammaire des adjectifs coréens et analyse syntaxique automatique. In: Langages, 31ᵉ année, n°126, 1997. La description syntaxique des adjectifs pour les traitements informatiques, sous la direction de Jee-Sun Nam . pp. 105-123