Adjective Ordering Across Languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Structural and lexical factors in adjective placement in complex noun phrases across Romance languages

One of the most common features across all known languages is their variability in word order. We show that differences in the prenominal and postnominal placement of adjectives in the noun phrase across five main Romance languages is not only subject to heaviness effects, as previously reported, but also to subtler structural interactions among dependencies that are better explained as effects...

A Game-Theoretic Account of Adjective Ordering Restrictions

This paper sets out to provide a game-theoretic explanation of some facts about adjective ordering restrictions (AOR) a phenomenon that has been widely discussed in the literature but is not yet well understood. [Teo06] notes that AOR do not choose between structures that are truth-conditionally distinct. She demonstrates that earlier attempts by [Cin94] to give a syntactic formulation of AOR c...

Beauty Before Age? Applying Subjectivity to Automatic English Adjective Ordering

The preferred order of pre-nominal adjectives in English is determined primarily by semantics. Nevertheless, Adjective Ordering (AO) systems do not generally exploit semantic features. This paper describes a system that orders adjectives with significantly abovechance accuracy (73.0%) solely on the basis of semantic features pertaining to the cognitive-semantic dimension of subjectivity. The re...

Ordering adverbs by their scaling effect on adjective intensity

In recent years, theoretical and computational linguistics has paid much attention to linguistic items that form scales. In NLP, much research has focused on ordering adjectives by intensity (tiny < small). Here, we address the task of automatically ordering English adverbs by their intensifying or diminishing effect on adjectives (e.g. extremely small < very small). We experiment with 4 differ...