Can Computers Handle Adverbs?

The adverb is the most complicated, and perhaps also the most interesting part of speech. Past research in natural language processing, however, has not dealt seriously with adverbs, though linguists have done significant work on this word class. The current paper draws on this linguistic research to organize an adverbial lexicon which will be useful for information retrieval and natural language processing systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Sumali Pin-Ngern Conlon, Martha W. Evens
• Keywords: COLING 1992, COLING 2008, Current Paper Draws, Language Processing Systems, Natural Language Processing