Multilingual Finite - State Noun

Multilingual Finite-state Noun Phrase Extraction

Extraction Anne Schiller Rank Xerox Research Centre 38240 Meylan, France [email protected] Abstract. The paper describes a tool for noun phrase mark-up based on nite-state techniques and statistical part-of-speech disambiguation. We illustrate the proceeding by examples from realizations for seven languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).

Pre-Noun Modifiers as a Means to Describe Product Characteristics

The article deals with the characteristics of noun phrases functioning in pre-position. Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way. The goal of this research was to analyze the way scholars interpret this linguistic structure today, as...

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

How Naked is the Naked Truth? A Multilingual Lexicon of Nominal Compound Compositionality

We introduce a new multilingual resource containing judgments about nominal compound compositionality in English, French and Portuguese. It covers 3 × 180 noun-noun and adjective-noun compounds for which we provide numerical compositionality scores for the head word, for the modifier and for the compound as a whole, along with possible paraphrases. This resource was constructed by native speake...

What good are 'Nominalkomposita' for 'noun compounds': Multilingual Extraction and Structure Analysis of Nominal Compositions using Linguistic Restrictors

Finding a definition of compoundhood that is cross-lingually valid is a non-trivial task as shown by linguistic literature. We present an iterative method for defining and extracting English noun compounds in a multilingual setting. We show how linguistic criteria can be used to extract compounds automatically and vice versa how the results of this extraction can shed new lights on linguistic t...