Adjectives: Constructions vs. Valence

Anna Kupść (1, 2, 3)

1 ERSS - Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique
2 IPI PAN - Instytut Podstaw Informatyki
3 SIGNES - Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language

The paper approaches adjectives in French and Polish from two perspectives: a linguistic description and an automatic text analysis. In particular, we aim at specifying adjective valence and distinguish it from components with which they occasionally occur in various syntactic constructions. Then, we apply linguistic knowledge to annotated data and automatically extract valence lexicons for adjectives. For French, a richly annotated treebank is available whereas the Polish corpus we use currently contains only morphosyntactic information. The paper focuses on results obtained for French as valence extraction for Polish requires additional data processing.

Mots clés: adjectives; syntactic valence; treebank; adjectival constructions; French; Polish; valence extraction

Domaines: Linguistique

Anna Kupść. Adjectives: Constructions vs. Valence. A. Mykowiecka and M. Marciniak. Aspects of Natural Language Processing, 5070, Springer, pp.241-272, 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-642-04734-3. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-04735-0_10⟩. ⟨inria-00420989⟩