Reacting is influenced often by mentally recognizing objects in which cases the associated features of these objects are recalled. This could be a lengthy process. In humans distinct features are associated with objects as adjectives. In this paper we represent a preliminary research on enabling robots or software agents to use this fact.

This paper examines the role of gradable properties in referring expressions, from a perspective of natural language generation. Firstly, we propose a simple semantic analysis of vague descriptions (i.e., referring expressions that contain gradable adjectives) that reflects the context-dependent meaning of the adjectives in them. Secondly, we show how this type of analysis can inform algorithms...

Most authors agree that adjective semantic analysis and representation is far from being a trivial issue. Since the semantic organisation of adjectives seems to be unlike that of nouns and verbs, as noted by Fellbaum et al (1993) and Miller (1998), this paper focuses on the encoding of adjectives in wordnets. We discuss the strategies used in WordNet.PT. Our proposal aims at mirroring adjective...

Similarity analysis is a substantial issue in both corpus-based researches and language usages. This paper focuses on the semantic usages of adjectives, and analyzes the similarities among adjectives. The adjective and the semantic tag of the head noun that it modifies in a noun phrase form a co-occurrence. A two-stage algorithm is applied to clustering the adjectives according to these co-occu...

Two studies demonstrate that children have knowledge of scalar distinctions between three sub-classes of gradable adjectives: relative (big, long), absolute with a maximal standard (full), and absolute with a minimal standard (spotted). Performance on these adjectives is compared with controls (shape, color, mood). Children appropriately shift the standard of comparison with context-dependent, ...

This paper argues that Korean lacks a distinct, open category of Adjective; what have been traditionally analyzed as adjectives are a kind of stative verbs. I propose that apparent noun-modifying adjectives in Korean are predicates inside relative clauses. The proposed analysis makes several predictions about the syntax and semantics of noun modifiers in Korean. In particular, it predicts that ...

Although researches have been conducted on the polysemous nature of some Korean psych-adjectives, no consensus has been made on the criteria used for evaluating the polysemy. Furthermore, few formalizations (semantic structures) have been proposed for the polysemous phenomena. The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to propose new criteria for distinguishing polysemous psych-adjectives from mo...