Calculability of the Semantics of English Nominal Compounds: Combining General Linguistic Rules and Corpus-based Semantic Information

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  • CÉCILE FABRE
  • PASCALE SÉBILLOT
چکیده

Our project focuses on the calculability of the semantics of nominal compounds. Our goal is to design a general model, based on domain-free lexical information, in order to exhibit and implement the principles of nominal compound interpretation. This model is based upon a precise semantic characterization of nominal constituents, which relates nouns to the predicative information that must be identiied to retrieve the underlying relation of the compound. The predicate is deduced from the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of the nouns and its argument structure is used to characterize the roles of each constituent. We describe our model of interpretation of English compounds and evaluate it from the results of a program that implements this general framework. We suggest solutions to enrich this model and to adapt it to the characteristics of the compounds of a specialized corpus through the extraction of speciic semantic information. Calculabilit e de la s emantique des compos es nominaux en anglais : Associer des r egles linguistiques g en erales et des informations s emantiques acquises sur corpus R esum e : Notre projet consiste a evaluer la calculabilit e de l'interpr etation des compos es nominaux. Nous elaborons un mod ele g en eral bas e sur des infor-mations lexicales hors domaine aan de formuler les principes d'interpr etation des compos es nominaux. Ce mod ele consiste a d eterminer le type de relation pr edicative qui est potentiellement attach ee a un nom, et qui se trouve ac-tualis ee dans le cadre d'un compos e. Si le nom est un d everbal, l'information pr edicative est d etermin ee par ses traits morpho-syntaxiques. S'il s'agit d'un nom simple, nous utilisons des crit eres s emantiques. Dans les deux cas, la structure argumentale du pr edicat sert a identiier les r^ oles respectifs des deux constituants. Nous d ecrivons notre mod ele pour l'interpr etation des compo-s es anglais et nous l' evaluons a partir des r esultats des tests que nous avons men es. Nous sugg erons la faa con dont ce mod ele peut ^ etre enrichi a l'aide d'in-formations s emantiques extraites des textes aan d'adapter l'interpr etation aux sp eciicit es d'un corpus donn e.

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تاریخ انتشار 1995