Lapata, Maria. 2000. The Automatic Interpretation of Nominalizations. In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 716-721. Austin, TX.
This paper discusses the interpretation of nominalizations in domain independent wide-coverage text. We present a statistical model which interprets nominalizations based on the co-occurrence of verb-argument tuples in a large balanced corpus. We propose an algorithm which treats the interpretation task as a disambiguation problem and achieves a performance of approximately 80% by combining partial parsing, smoothing techniques and domain independent taxonomic information (e.g., WordNet).
@InProceedings{Lapata:00,
author = {Maria Lapata},
title = {The Automatic Interpretation of Nominalizations},
crossref = {AAAI:00},
pages = {716--721}
}
@Proceedings{AAAI:00,
key = {AAAI},
title = {Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence},
address = {Austin, TX},
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}