Abstract Slurs are pejorative terms for groups of people, relating to example their nationality, sexual orientation, etc. While there is a lot discussion about slurs, they typically characterized in relation neutral noun. In this article we will explore distinction between and offensive group labels. By means small experiment, show that slurs indeed considered be more hurtful than corresponding...

In this paper we discuss the semantics of adjectives from the perspective of a Modern Type Theory (MTT) with an adequate subtyping mechanism. In an MTT, common nouns (CNs) can be interpreted as types and, in particular, CNs modified by intersective and subsective adjectives can be given semantics by means of Σ-types. However, an interpretation of CNs as types would not be viable without a prope...

translation, whose first traces date back at least to 3000 bc (newmark, 1988), has always been considered time-consuming and labor-consuming. in view of this, experts have made numerous efforts to develop some mechanical systems which can reduce part of this time and labor. the advancement of computers in the second half of the twentieth century paved the ground for the invention of machine tra...

We propose a new semantic relation of intensity for gradable adjectives in WordNet and show its specific benefits for NLP. Intensity enriches the present, vague, similar relation with information on the degree with which different adjectives express a shared attribute. Using lexical-semantic patterns, we mine the Web for evidence of the relative strength of adjectives like “large”, “huge” and “...

The modelling of the semantics of adjectives is notoriously challenging. We consider this problem in the context of the so called ontology-lexicon interface, which attempts to capture the semantics of words by reference to an ontology in description logics or some other, typically first-order, logical formalism. The use of first order logic (hence also description logics), while effective for n...

This paper treats the classification of the semantic functions performed by adnominal constituents in Japanese, where many parts of speech act as adnominal constituents. In order to establish a formal treatment of the semantic roles, the similarities and differences among adnominal constituents, i.e. adjectives and "noun + NO (in English "of + noun")" structures, which have a broad range of sem...

We present the Database of Catalan Adjectives (DCA), a database with 2,296 adjective lemmata enriched with morphological, syntactic and semantic information. This set of adjectives has been collected from a fragment of the Corpus Textual Informatitzat de la Llengua Catalana of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and constitutes a representative sample of the adjective class in Catalan as a whole. T...

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns compare gay people to the gays. We first collect and analyze a corpus of hand-curated, expert-annotated pejorative nominalizations for four target adjectives: female, gay, illegal, and poor. We then collect a second corpus of auto...