A flexible approach to class-based ordering of prenominal modifiers

  • Authors:
  • Margaret Mitchell

  • Affiliations:
  • Computing Science Department, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

  • Venue:
  • Empirical methods in natural language generation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This chapter introduces a class-based approach to ordering prenominal modifiers. Modifiers are grouped into broad classes based on where they tend to occur prenominally, and a framework is developed to order sets of modifiers based on their classes. This system is developed to generate several orderings for sets of modifiers with more flexible positional constraints, and lends itself to bootstrapping for the classification of previously unseen modifiers. The approach to modifier classification outlined here is useful for automated language generation tasks, and the proposed modifier classes may be useful within constraint-based grammars.