Regine Lai
University of Hong Kong
4 Papers
13 Citations
Regine Lai is an academic researcher from University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Semantics & Lexical item. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications.
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Papers
•Proceedings Article
Cifu: a Frequency Lexicon of Hong Kong Cantonese.
Regine Lai,Grégoire Winterstein +1 more
- 01 May 2020
TL;DR: Cifu is of use for NLP applications and the design and analysis of psycholinguistics experiments on HKC, and it is found that the lexical diversity of the child-directed speech genre is particularly low, compared to a size-matched written corpus.
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•Proceedings Article
CantoMap: a Hong Kong Cantonese MapTask Corpus.
Grégoire Winterstein,Carmen Tang,Regine Lai +2 more
- 01 May 2020
TL;DR: The design of the maps and their landmarks and the basic segmentation principles of the data and various transcription conventions the authors adopted are outlined and the contents of Cantomap are compared to those of comparable Cantonese corpora.
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From additivity to mirativity: The Cantonese sentence final particle tim1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the Cantonese sentence final particle tim1 and more generally the semantics of additive particles and formalize the meaning of each of these particles using a probabilistic argumentative framework which helps them define the scale with which tim1 associates, namely an argumentative scale which is relative to speaker's goal in the discourse.
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Denials and negative emotions: A unified analysis of the Cantonese expressive Gwai2
Grégoire Winterstein,Regine Lai,Zoe Pei-sui Luk +2 more
- 13 Nov 2017
TL;DR: A unified analysis of the Cantonese morpheme gwai2 is proposed based on the assumption that it indicates a negative attitude of the speaker towards its argument, notably by showing how to derive denials from this negative attitude.
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