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Integrating symbolic and statistical representations: the lexicon pragmatics interface

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ACL '98/EACL '98: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 136 - 143

https://doi.org/10.3115/976909.979635

Published: 07 July 1997 Publication History

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We describe a formal framework for interpretation of words and compounds in a discourse context which integrates a symbolic lexicon/grammar, word-sense probabilities, and a pragmatic component. The approach is motivated by the need to handle productive word use. In this paper, we concentrate on compound nominals. We discuss the inadequacies of approaches which consider compund interpretation as either wholly lexico-grammatical or wholly pragmatic, and provide an alternative integrated account.

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ACL '98/EACL '98: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

July 1997

543 pages

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Philip R. Cohen
Oregon Graduate Institute
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Kim SBaldwin T(2013)Word sense and semantic relations in noun compoundsACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 10.1145/2483969.248397110:3(1-17)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2483969.2483971
Kim SBaldwin TArsenijevic BBaldwin TTrawinski B(2006)Automatic identification of English verb particle constructions using linguistic featuresProceedings of the Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions10.5555/1621431.1621441(65-72)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1621431.1621441
Tanaka TBaldwin TLevin LTokunaga TLenci A(2003)Noun-noun compound machine translationProceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 1810.3115/1119282.1119285(17-24)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2003
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1119282.1119285
Lapata MLascarides ACopestake AHajic J(2003)Detecting novel compoundsProceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 110.3115/1067807.1067839(235-242)Online publication date: 12-Apr-2003
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