Journal of Logic and Computation Advance Access originally published online on December 20, 2007
Journal of Logic and Computation 2008 18(3):385-404; doi:10.1093/logcom/exm070
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Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation
Powerset, Inc., 475 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. E-mail: olya{at}powerset.com,crouch{at}powerset.com
Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: thking{at}parc.com, paiva{at}parc.com
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Deverbal nouns pose serious challenges for knowledge-representation systems. We present a method of canonicalizing deverbal noun representations, relying on a rich lexicon of verb subcategorization frames, the WordNet database, a large finite-state network for derivational morphology and a series of heuristics for mapping deverbal arguments onto the arguments of corresponding verbs.1
Keywords: Knowledge representation; deverbal nouns; nominalization; canonicalization