TY - GEN
T1 - On semantic classification of modifiers
AU - Bolshakov, Igor A.
AU - Gelbukh, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - To search a large dictionary for a collocation expressing a desired meaning, the human reader needs some kind of hierarchical structure that would facilitate such search. In this paper, fragments of semantic classification of modifiers are elaborated based on several highly modifier-productive nouns, namely, common nouns person, action, look, corporation, and price, as well the terms coating, medium, and check. By modifiers meant are adjectives, participles, or preposition phrases syntactically dependent on the nouns. The classification rubrics proved to be heavily dependent on the modified headword noun and are representative fragments of a Roget-like thesaurus. It is shown that the modifiers under consideration are rather selective in their use, similarly to standard lexical functions (LFs) by Mel’čuk, while for many nouns LFs can be absent. The obtained classification rubrics can be used for other English nouns and for other languages. Some deficiencies of the proposed rubrics are discussed.
AB - To search a large dictionary for a collocation expressing a desired meaning, the human reader needs some kind of hierarchical structure that would facilitate such search. In this paper, fragments of semantic classification of modifiers are elaborated based on several highly modifier-productive nouns, namely, common nouns person, action, look, corporation, and price, as well the terms coating, medium, and check. By modifiers meant are adjectives, participles, or preposition phrases syntactically dependent on the nouns. The classification rubrics proved to be heavily dependent on the modified headword noun and are representative fragments of a Roget-like thesaurus. It is shown that the modifiers under consideration are rather selective in their use, similarly to standard lexical functions (LFs) by Mel’čuk, while for many nouns LFs can be absent. The obtained classification rubrics can be used for other English nouns and for other languages. Some deficiencies of the proposed rubrics are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-36271-1_15
DO - 10.1007/3-540-36271-1_15
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
SN - 354000307X
SN - 9783540003076
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 172
EP - 182
BT - Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2002, Revised Papers
A2 - Andersson, Birger
A2 - Bergholtz, Maria
A2 - Johannesson, Paul
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2002
Y2 - 27 June 2002 through 28 June 2002
ER -