The Description of Adjectives for Natural Language Processing: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
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Adjectives constitute a challenging issue for NLP applications. ¿From a syntactic viewpoint, they can be predicative or attributive. From a semantic viewpoint, their sense can vary depending on the context in which they appear. In this paper we present an overview on the lexical semantics of adjectives in Natural Language Processing, followed by the presentation of the papers included in this proceeding.1
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