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Identifying Generic Noun Phrases

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Identifying Generic Noun Phrases
This paper presents a supervised approach for identifying generic noun phrases in context. Generic statements express rulelike knowledge about kinds or events. Therefore, their identification is important for the automatic construction of knowledge bases. In particular, the distinction between generic and non-generic statements is crucial for the correct encoding of generic and instance-level information. Generic expressions have been studied extensively in formal semantics. Building on this work, we explore a corpus-based learning approach for identifying generic NPs, using selections of linguistically motivated features. Our results perform well above the baseline and existing prior work.
Nils Reiter, Anette Frank
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where ACL
Authors Nils Reiter, Anette Frank
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