Semantics of portions and partitive nouns for NLP

Authors:
Salvador Climent
Affiliations:
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Venue:
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Year:
1996

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Abstract

This paper describes a system of representation of nouns denoting portions, segments and relative quantities of entities, in order to account for this case of part-whole relationship. The semantics of both constructions denoting portions and nouns used to build them are discussed and eventually formalised in a unification-based formalism (LKB-LRL) in terms of Pustejovsky's Theory of Qualia and Jackendoff's Conceptual Semantics.