A general computational treatment of the comparative

  • Authors:
  • Carol Friedman

  • Affiliations:
  • New York University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We present a general treatment of the comparative that is based on more basic linguistic elements so that the underlying system can be effectively utilized: in the syntactic analysis phase, the comparative is treated the same as similar structures; in the syntactic regularization phase, the comparative is transformed into a standard form so that subsequent processing is basically unaffected by it. The scope of quantifiers under the comparative is also integrated into the system in a general way.