This book takes the naming-telling structure of the clause complex theory as the formal model of Chinese chapter structure, mines cognitive features, establishes a cognitive model of the naming-telling structure, studies the constituent-sharing mechanism of the naming-telling structure, constructs a computational model of the naming-telling structure, and explores the problem of automatic recognition of the naming constituent-sharing.

Following the research idea from formal models to cognitive models and then to computational models, this book implements the research concept of combining linguistic research, cognitive research and language engineering, and uses large-scale corpus to test these linguistic knowledge and cognitive laws, which verifies the feasibility of researching chapter grammatical structure from the cognitive perspective, and explores the potential of natural language text as a data resource for cognitive science research. Today, although big data and big models are mainstream, formalized linguistic knowledge with operability and full coverage still plays an important role in linguistic computing.

Lu Dawei, Ph.D., is a lecturer and graduate supervisor at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China, a Wu Yuzhang Young Scholar, and a member of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Youth Working Committee. His research mainly focuses on Chinese clause complexes, Chinese information processing, and language resource construction. Professor Lu has published many papers in journals such as Social Sciences in China, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, etc. He has presided over many projects at provincial and ministerial levels such as the National Social Science Fund of China Project, the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Foundation Project, the key projects of the State Language Commission, and the Postdoctoral Science Fund of China Project.

Cognitive and Computational Research on Naming-telling Structure of Chinese Clause Complexes is revised on the basis of the author’s doctoral thesis. The analysis of Chinese chapter structure is one of the major difficulties in natural language processing. Based on the theory of clause complex proposed by Song Rou, this book starts from cognition, implements in computation, focuses on the essential unit of clause complex, the naming-telling structure, and combines with its formal characteristics, then designs a cognitive mechanism for the naming-telling structure, which realizes the analysis of naming-telling structure that contains a variety of constituent sharing patterns. This book is a useful practice of the research idea of combining form, cognition and computation, and a meaningful exploration of the research method of combining linguistic knowledge and language models.

This book is recommended for postgraduate students interested in combining cognitive and computational linguistics for natural language processing