Lexical semantics -- Embedded Compounding Monosyllabic Morphemes: a perspective from the Lexical Study and TCFL -- Word Ordering in Chinese Opposite Compounds -- Study on Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Verbal Monosyllabic-Disyllabic Synonyms -- Semantic Derivation of the "吃 [chi] (eat) + Object" Idiom in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka -- On the Lexical Meaning of Conditional Connectives in Chinese -- Combination of Mandarin Chinese Verb "xiě" and Nouns from the Perspective of Generative Lexicon Theory -- The Mechanism behind Idioms' Meaning Extension -- A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Relative Antonyms -- Instantiations of the Generation Mechanism of A-not-A Question in Chinese and Some Relevant Syntactic Issues -- A Reanalysis of Chinese Passive with a Retained Object -- Quantitative Research on the Origins of Contemporary Chinese Vocabulary Based on The Great Chinese Dictionary -- The Ergativization of the Verb "死"[si](Die) in Chinese Language History -- Grammaticalization and Subjectivization of "Po" -- On chi: its Gestalt and Collocations -- The Nature of men and Its Co-occurrence with Numeral Expressions in Mandarin Chinese -- A Study on the Causative Alternation from a Non-derivational Perspective -- The Processing of Dummy Verbs in Semantic Role Labeling -- Categorization and Intensity of Chinese Emotion Words -- Lexical Semantic Restrictions on the Syntactic Representation of the Semantic Roles of Pinjie Class -- Syntactic Distribution of Motion Agents' Concept from the Redundancy of Leg Nouns -- Investigate into the Cognitive Motivation of the Derivative Meaning of Words: The Case of Luojuan -- Applications on Natural Language Processing -- A Rule-Based Method for Identifying Patterns in Old Chinese Sentences -- Semi-supervised Sentiment Classification with Self-training on Feature Subspaces -- The Effect of Modifiers for Sentiment Analysis -- Word Relevance Computation for Noun-noun Metaphor Recognition -- Learning Semantic Similarity for Multi-LabelText Categorization -- Latent Semantic Distance between Chinese Basic Words and Non-basic Words -- Manual Investigation on Context for Word Sense Disambiguation -- Conventionalizing Common Sense for Chinese Textual Entailment Recognition -- Scale-Free Distribution in Chinese Semantic Field Network: a Main Cause of Using the Shortest Path Length for Representing Semantic Distance between Terms -- Recognition and Extraction of Honorifics in Chinese Diachronic Corpora -- A Hypothesis on Word Similarity and Its Application -- Lexical Resources and Corpus Linguistics -- Chinese Near-synonym Study Based on the Chinese Gigaword Corpus and the Chinese Learner Corpus -- Semantic Labeling of Chinese Verb-complement Structure Based on Feature Structure -- Structurally and Functionally Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles in the English Abstracts of Chinese and International Journals -- Corpus Building for the Outcome-based Education of the Ancient Chinese Courses -- Building Chinese Semantic Treebank for Patent Text on the Basis of 3 Dimensional Dynamic Concept Model -- Statistics and Analysis of Coordination Structures in Patent Text -- Syntactic Distribution, Semantic Framework, and Pragmatic Function of the Modal Adverb Meizhun (Maybe) -- Preliminary Study on the Construction of Bilingual Phrase Structure Treebank -- Quantitative Analysis of "ADV+N" via Cognitive Property Knowledge base -- Annotating Principal Event Chain in Chinese Texts -- A Study on Metaphors in Idioms Based on Chinese Idiom Knowledge Base -- Generalized Case Theory and the Argument-omission Structure in Mandarin Chinese.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15 Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2014, held in Macau, China, in June 2014.   The 41 regular and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lexical semantics; applications on natural language processing; and lexical resources and corpus linguistics.