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| Title | The Treatment of Adjectives in SIMPLE: Theoretical Observations |
| Authors | Peters Ivonne (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK, ivonne@dcs.shef.ac.uk) Peters Wim (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK, w.peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk ) |
| Keywords | Computational Psycholinguistics, Knowledge Acquisition, Lexical Semantics |
| Session | Session WO17 - Semantic Lexicons |
| Full Paper | 366.ps, 366.pdf |
| Abstract | This paper discusses the issues that play a part in the characterization of adjectival meaning. It describes the SIMPLE ontology for adjectives and provides insight into the morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects that are included in the SIMPLE adjectival templates. |