Beauty before age?: applying subjectivity to automatic English adjective ordering

  • Authors:
  • Felix Hill

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The preferred order of pre-nominal adjectives in English is determined primarily by semantics. Nevertheless, Adjective Ordering (AO) systems do not generally exploit semantic features. This paper describes a system that orders adjectives with significantly above-chance accuracy (73.0%) solely on the basis of semantic features pertaining to the cognitive-semantic dimension of subjectivity. The results indicate that combining such semantic approaches with current methods could result in more accurate and robust AO systems.