Process nominalizations in Russian

Stative predicates in Russian and their nominalizations

Nominalizations in PUNDIT

This paper describes the t rea tment of nominalizations in the PUNDIT text processing system. A single semantic definition is used for both nominalizations and the verbs to which they are related, with the same semantic roles, decompositions, and selectional restrictions on the semantic roles. However, because syntact ical ly nominalizations are noun phrases, the processing which produces the s...

Nominalizations: The Case of Nominalizations of Modal Predicates

Nominalizations describing events and tropes have a received considerable interest in the semantic (and philosophical) literature. By contrast, nominalizations of modal predicates and the modal objects they describe have received little, if any, attention in the literature so far. This paper is a case study of nominalizations of the sort need and possibility as well as permission, obligation, i...

Naturally atomic er-nominalizations

(1) a. He is a teacher (agent) b. He is a fire-fighter c. This is a grinder (instrument) d. This is a can-opener e. Anger is a great defuser of pent-up emotions (causer) f. Education is a leveller of class differences g. He is a holder of a Visa or Master card (holder) h. He is a bearer of heavy burden i. He is an admirer of the Greek poets (experiencer) j. He is a lover of French cuisine k. He...

The Disambiguation of Nominalizations

This article addresses the interpretation of nominalizations, a particular class of compound nouns whose head noun is derived from a verb and whose modifier is interpreted as an argument of this verb. Any attempt to automatically interpret nominalizations needs to take into account: (a) the selectional constraints imposed by the nominalized compound head, (b) the fact that the relation of the m...