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In recent years, theoretical and computational linguistics has paid much attention to linguistic items that form scales. In NLP, much research has focused on ordering adjectives by intensity (tiny < small). Here, we address the task of automatically ordering English adverbs by their intensifying or diminishing effect on adjectives (e.g. extremely small < very small). We experiment with 4 different methods: 1) using the association strength between adverbs and adjectives; 2) exploiting scalar patterns (such as not only X but Y); 3) using the metadata of product reviews; 4) clustering. The method that performs best is based on the use of metadata and ranks adverbs by their scaling factor relative to unmodified adjectives.
We present a quantitative approach to disambiguating flat morphological analyses and producing more deeply structured analyses. Based on existing morphological segmentations, possible combinations of resulting word trees for the next level are filtered first by criteria of linguistic plausibility and then by weighting procedures based on the geometric mean. The frequencies for weighting are derived from three different sources (counts of morphs in a lexicon, counts of largest constituents in a lexicon, counts of token frequencies in a corpus) and can be used either to find the best analysis on the level of morphs or on the next higher constituent level. The evaluation shows that for this task corpus-based frequency counts are slightly superior to counts of lexical data.
Opinion Holder and Target Extraction for Verb-based Opinion Predicates – The Problem is Not Solved
(2015)
We offer a critical review of the current state of opinion role extraction involving opinion verbs. We argue that neither the currently available lexical resources nor the manually annotated text corpora are sufficient to appropriately study this task. We introduce a new corpus focusing on opinion roles of opinion verbs from the Subjectivity Lexicon and show potential benefits of this corpus. We also demonstrate that state-of-the-art classifiers perform rather poorly on this new dataset compared to the standard dataset for the task showing that there still remains significant research to be done.