Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation

Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation

Deverbal nouns pose serious challenges for knowledge-representation systems. We present a method of canonicalizing deverbal noun representations, relying on a rich lexicon of verb subcategorization frames, the WordNet database, a large finite-state network for derivational morphology and a series of...

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Published in:Journal of logic and computation 2008-06, Vol.18 (3), p.385-404
Main Authors: Gurevich, Olga, Crouch, Richard, King, Tracy Holloway, de Paiva, Valeria
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
canonicalization
deverbal nouns
Knowledge representation
nominalization
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Summary:Deverbal nouns pose serious challenges for knowledge-representation systems. We present a method of canonicalizing deverbal noun representations, relying on a rich lexicon of verb subcategorization frames, the WordNet database, a large finite-state network for derivational morphology and a series of heuristics for mapping deverbal arguments onto the arguments of corresponding verbs.1
ISSN:0955-792X
1465-363X