A first order semantic approach to adjectival inference

Authors:
Marilisa Amoia;Claire gardent
Affiliations:
INRIA/Université de Nancy & University of the Saarland, Saarbrüücken, Germany;CNRS/Loria, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
Venue:
RTE '07 Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

As shown in the formal semantics literature, adjectives can display very different inferential patterns depending on whether they are intersective, privative, subsective or plain non-subsective. Moreover, many of these classes are often described using second order constructs. In this paper, we adopt Hobbs's ontologically promiscuous approach and present a first order treatment of adjective semantics which opens the way for a sophisticated treatment of adjectival inference. The approach was implemented and tested using first order automated reasoners.