Two-level semantic analysis of compounds: a case study in linguistic engineering
W.G. ter Stal, P.E. van der Vet · Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands · 1994
We describe an experiment of a two-level approach for the automated semantic analysis of N-N compounds.The first stage of the interpretation process consists of the translation of compounds into a representational format called Quasi Logical Form (QLF). The second stage consist of a mapping of QLFs onto domain-dependent, conceptual representations. Specifically, in the context of the Plinius project these QLFs are mapped onto relevant, formal expressions in terms of the so-called Plinius ontology KB. We briefly describe the linguistic analysis and then focus on a number of cases of deriving conceptual descriptions from QLFs. Our ultimate goal is to apply the method to a large (>2000) number of compounds within a specific domain.