An Applied Ontological Semantic Microtheory of Adjective Meaning for Natural Language Processing

  • Authors:
  • Victor Raskin;Sergei Nirenburg

  • Affiliations:
  • Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1336, USA vraskin@purdue.edu;Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA

  • Venue:
  • Machine Translation
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper is devoted to determining and representing adjectival meaning. The results form a microtheory in the Mikrokosmos project on computational ontological semantics. Mikrokosmos microtheories cover the meaning of lexical categories in several languages, the ontological model used as metalanguage for language description and syntax–semantics mapping as well as the actual process of text analysis and generation. This paper presents a critical analysis of the body of knowledge on adjectives amassed to date in linguistics and presents a detailed, practically tested methodology and heuristics for the acquisition of adjectival lexical entries for computational applications. The work is based on the set of over 6,000 English and about 1,500 Spanish adjectives obtained from task-oriented corpora.