Abstract
The paper presents a frame-based model of inherently polysemous nouns (such as ‘book’, which denotes both a physical object and an informational content) in which the meaning facets are directly accessible via attributes and which also takes into account the semantic relations between the facets. Predication over meaning facets (as in ‘memorize the book’) is then modeled as targeting the value of the corresponding facet attribute while coercion (as in ‘finish the book’) is modeled via specific patterns that enrich the predication. We use a compositional framework whose basic components are lexicalized syntactic trees paired with semantic frames and in which frame unification is triggered by tree composition. The approach is applied to a variety of combinations of predications over meaning facets and coercions.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.cogalex-1.8
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Venue:
- CogALex
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 58–67
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.cogalex-1.8
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Chen Long, Laura Kallmeyer, and Rainer Osswald. 2022. A Frame-Based Model of Inherent Polysemy, Copredication and Argument Coercion. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, pages 58–67, Taipei, Taiwan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Frame-Based Model of Inherent Polysemy, Copredication and Argument Coercion (Long et al., CogALex 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2022.cogalex-1.8.pdf