Comparing methods for deriving intensity scores for adjectives
Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Jasper Brandes · 2014
We compare several different corpus-based and lexicon-based methods for the scalar ordering of adjectives. Among them, we examine for the first time a low-resource approach based on distinctive-collexeme analysis that just requires a small predefined set of adverbial modi-fiers. While previous work on adjective in-tensity mostly assumes one single scale for all adjectives, we group adjectives into dif-ferent scales which is more faithful to hu-man perception. We also apply the meth-ods to both polar and non-polar adjectives, showing that not all methods are equally suitable for both types of adjectives. 1