In this paper we shall meet the application of Scott domains to nominalisation and explain its problem of predication. We claim that it is not possible to nd a solution to such a problem within semantic domains without logic. Frege structures are more conclusive than a solution to domain equations and can be used as models for nominalisation. Hence we develop a type theory based on Frege struct...

This paper discusses the semantic interpretation of compound nominalizations in Chinese. We propose four coarse-grained semantic roles of the noun modifier and use a Maximum Entropy Model to label such relations in a compound nominalization. The feature functions used for the model are web-based statistics acquired via role related paraphrase patterns, which are formed by a set of word instance...

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...

In the Mon-Khmer language Katu (as spoken in the Lao P.D.R.; Costello 1998), nominalization is marked with a variety of forms at the leftmost periphery of the root word, and occasionally as a phonologically reduced infix, /-r-/, appearing in the coda of the initial syllable of the nominalized word. This paper will analyze the Katu case as an example of prosodically conditioned allomorphy, resul...

In this paper, we propose a principled approach for disambiguating relations between constituent words of compound nouns whose heads are deverbal nouns, using the framework of lexical conceptual structure. The aim of this research is to reveal the complete set of lexical factor and disambiguation rules needed for application. The results of experiment for Japanese deverbal compounds and nominal...

However, there is a problem with such an analysis in that there is a regular paradigmatic gap in the distribution of f-. Malagasy verbs have three forms, here referred to as Actor Topic (AT), Circumstantial Topic (CT), and Theme Topic (TT); the form of the verb determines which argument in the clause appears in the sentence-final subject position. Of the three forms, AT and CT freely accept f-n...

This paper presents OpenWordNet-PT, a freely available open-source wordnet for Portuguese, with its latest developments and practical uses. We provide a detailed description of the RDF representation developed for OpenWordnet-PT. We highlight our efforts to extend the coverage of our resource and add nominalization relations connecting nouns and verbs. Finally, we present several real-world app...