How to Use Valency Patterns

Table 1 shows an example Japanese sentence of the speech input data.

Table 1: Input Sentence (Example)

「私は彼の高校を受験する.」

``Watashiwa kareno koukouwo jyukeNsuru.''

` I will take an entrance examination for his high school.'

We used the word bigram model to generate the 2-best output sentences (table 2).

Table 2: Examples of Output Sentences

	order		output sentence
	1		「私からの高校と受験する．」 (UGS)
			``watashikarano koukouto jyukeN suru.'' (UGS)
			`I take examination with a senior high school from me.'
			(UGS)
	2		「私は彼の高校を受験する．」
			``watashiha kareno koukouwo jyukeN suru.''
			`I take an examination to his senior high school.'

Table 3 shows the valency patterns for the Japanese verb 「受験する」('take an examination'). In this table, Japanese or English words in parentheses mean the semantic categories for the N's.

Table 3: The Valency Patterns for 「受験する」 (`take an examination')

1	「 $N1$( 人) [は/が] $N2$(362 組織) を 受験する」
	` $N1$( human ) [ha/ga] $N2$(362 Organization ) take an examination '
2	「 $N1$( 人) [は/が] $N2$(1426 試験) を 受験する」
	` $N1$( human) [ha/ga] $N2$(1426 Examination ) take an examination '
3	「$N1$ ( 人) [は/が] 受験する」
	` $N1$ ( human) [ha/ga]take an examination '

Because none of the valency patterns in Table 3 match the first candidate, it must be discarded as an ungrammatical sentence. Whereas, since one of the valency patterns in Table 3 matches the second candidate, it becomes the first candidate.