Towards a computational treatment of superlatives

  • Authors:
  • Silke Scheible

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL: Student Research Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

I propose a computational treatment of superlatives, starting with superlative constructions and the main challenges in automatically recognising and extracting their components. Initial experimental evidence is provided for the value of the proposed work for Question Answering. I also briefly discuss its potential value for Sentiment Detection and Opinion Extraction.