Rethinking the Semantics of Complex Nominals

Authors:
Nabil Abdullah;Richard A. Frost
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada;School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada
Venue:
CAI '07 Proceedings of the 20th conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Complex Nominals (CNs) have simple syntactic structure that conceals non-trivial semantic characteristics. While speakers of natural languages combine noun(s)/adjective(s) with a head noun to indicate existing or novel concepts with ease, formalizing such a semantic process, however, has proven to be a daunting task. In this paper, we present a unified semantic approach for constructions involving a head-noun and modifier(s), i.e., adjective(s)/noun(s). Based on a rigorous typing system, this approach uses set intersection as the only underlying semantic rule. We argue that this novel approach is compositional and warrants consistent inferences.