Generative Lexicon

The analysis of nominal compound constructions has proven to be a recalcitrant problem for linguistic semantics and poses serious challenges for natural language processing systems. We argue for a compositional …...

In this document, we outline some elements related to sense variation and to sense delim- itation within the perspective of the Gener- ative Lexicon. We then show that, in some …...

In this paper, we propose an Inductive Logic Programming learning method which aims at automatically extracting special Noun-Verb (N- V) pairs from a corpus in order to build up semantic …...

This paper gives a contrastive analysis of function verbs in English and Japanese, cut and kiru in the framework of the Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). Despite their division sense, these …...

. In this paper, I try to show the advantages of analyzing events in terms of subevent structure, by taking into consideration the case of a specific class of verbs: …...

AbstractGiven a controversial issue, argument mining from natural language texts (news papers, and any form of text on the Internet) is extremely challenging: domain knowledge is often required together with …...

AbstractCommonsense, real-world knowledge about the events that entities or “things in the world” are typically involved in, as well as part-whole relationships, is valuable for allowing computational systems to draw …...

This paper focuses on specific changes to the semantic representations associated with classes of verbs in the English lexical resource VerbNet (Schuler, 2005). The new form has been restricted to …...