Modeling Regular Polysemy: A Study on the Semantic Classification of Catalan Adjectives

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 575-616

  Boleda, Gemma ^a   Schulte im Walde, Sabine ^b   Badia, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AUTOMATIC ACQUISITION; CATALANS; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; SEMANTIC CLASS; SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84865288391     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00093     Document Type: Article

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