Abstract We present the results of a large-scale corpus-based comparison two German event nominalization patterns: deverbal nouns in -ung (e.g., die Evaluierung , ‘the evaluation’) and nominal infinitives das Evaluieren evaluating’). Among many available patterns for German, we selected these because they are both highly productive challenging from semantic point view. Both known to keep tight ...

Many German nominalizations with the affix -ung are sortally ambiguous. Within a sentence, lexico-semantic and/or syntactic phenomena may support disambiguation. The sortal interpretation of a nominalization may vary depending on the underlying syntactic analysis of one and the same, syntactically ambiguous sentence. We model the process of sortal disambiguation as a constraint-based incrementa...

This paper explains the automatic semantic interpretation of sentences. These sentences were selected for testing the verb predicates that we have been defining for WordNet 1.6 verb classes, and the algorithm that uses them. Semantic interpretation is performed for determining the meaning of the verb, or, verb predicate, its semantic roles, adjuncts, the attachment of postverbal prepositional p...

This work presents a procedure of semantic role labeling in deverbal noun predications. The procedure avoids the problems related to the unavailability of robust computational resources for Portuguese by exploring the systematic correspondence between the argument structures of verbs and of their corresponding nominalizations, and by using the Web as a corpus in order to infer probabilistically...

Methods of text compression in Navy messages are not limited to sentence fragments and the omissions of function words such as the copula be. Text compression is also exhibited within ~grammatieal" sentences and is identified within noun phrases in Navy messages. Mechanisms of text compression include increased frequency of complex noun sequences and also increased usage of nominalizations. Sem...

This paper presents NomLex-BR, a lexical resource describing Brazilian Portuguese nominalizations, and its integration with OpenWordnet-PT. We first describe the original English NOMLEX lexical resource and how we used it to bootstrap a Portuguese version. Subsequently, we describe how this lexicon can be embedded into OpenWordnet-PT, which facilitates its use and helps spot-checking both the b...