This paper presents NomLex-PT, a lexical resource describing Portuguese nominalizations. NomLex-PT connects verbs to their nominalizations, thereby enabling NLP systems to observe the potential semantic relationships between the two words when analysing a text. NomLex-PT is freely available and encoded in RDF for easy integration with other resources. Most notably, we have integrated NomLex-PT ...

The focus of this paper is on the proper analysis of lexical and phrasal nominalizations in English and Korean that are built around an identical deverbal element. In English, as is well-known, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations that are built around the -ing suffixed form of the verb. In Korean too, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations based on the same nominalizi...

A computational approach to the semantic interpretation of nominalizations is described. Interpretation of nominalizations involves three tasks: deciding whether the nominalization is being used in a verbal or non-verbal sense; disambiguating the nominalized verb when a verbal sense is used; and determining the fillers of the thematic roles of the verbal concept or predicate of the nominalizati...

BACKGROUND This paper presents data on alternations in the argument structure of common domain-specific verbs and their associated verbal nominalizations in the PennBioIE corpus. Alternation is the term in theoretical linguistics for variations in the surface syntactic form of verbs, e.g. the different forms of stimulate in FSH stimulates follicular development and follicular development is sti...

This paper discusses the interpretation of nominalizations in domain independent wide-coverage text. We present a statistical model which interprets nominalizations based on the cooccurrence of verb-argument tuples in a large balanced corpus. We propose an algorithm which treats the interpretation task as a disambiguation problem and achieves a performance of approximately 80% by combining part...

This paper presents the methodology and the linguistic criteria followed to enrich the AnCora-Es corpus with the semantic annotation of deverbal nominalizations. The first step was to run two independent automated processes: one for the annotation of denotation types and another one for the annotation of argument structure. Secondly, we manually checked both types of information and measured in...