1996 AnAnalysisOfCompoundsInHPSG

(McFetridge et al., 1996) ⇒ Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass. (1996). “An Analysis of Compounds in HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) for Database Queries.” In: Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, 20(2). doi:10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00033-X

Subject Headings(s): Compound Noun, Natural Language Database Interface, HPSG.

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Natural language interfaces to databases; Unification-based-grammar formalisms; Compounding

Abstract

Compounds can be analyzed in HPSG as head/complement structures, corresponding to verbal compounds, and head/adjunct structures, corresponding to non-verbal compounds. The rules that create these structures are also responsible for paraphrases using prepositional modification. Although compounds are often thought to have a high structural ambiguity, we show that the distinction between head/complement compounding and head/adjunct compounding together with general semantic considerations eliminates ambiguity. Finally, for database interfaces, the notion of a semantic field is useful for solving problems of noncompositionality of compounds.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1996 AnAnalysisOfCompoundsInHPSG	Fred Popowich Paul McFetridge Dan Fass			An Analysis of Compounds in HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) for Database Queries			http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00033-X	10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00033-X