Issues of Mass and Count: Dealing with ‘Dual-Life’ Nouns
Tibor Kiss, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Halima Husić, Johanna Poppek
Abstract
The topics of mass and count have been studied for many decades in philosophy (e.g., Quine, 1960; Pelletier, 1975), linguistics (e.g., McCawley, 1975; Allen, 1980; Krifka, 1991) and psychology (e.g., Middleton et al, 2004; Barner et al, 2009). More recently, interest from within computational linguistics has studied the issues involved (e.g., Pustejovsky, 1991; Bond, 2005; Schmidtke & Kuperman, 2016), to name just a few. As is pointed out in these works, there are many difficult conceptual issues involved in the study of this contrast. In this article we study one of these issues – the “Dual-Life” of being simultaneously +mass and +count – by means of an unusual combination of human annotation, online lexical resources, and online corpora.- Anthology ID:
- S17-1023
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Vancouver, Canada
- Editors:
- Nancy Ide, Aurélie Herbelot, Lluís Màrquez
- Venue:
- *SEM
- SIGs:
- SIGLEX | SIGSEM
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 189–198
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/S17-1023
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/S17-1023
- Cite (ACL):
- Tibor Kiss, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Halima Husić, and Johanna Poppek. 2017. Issues of Mass and Count: Dealing with ‘Dual-Life’ Nouns. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), pages 189–198, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Issues of Mass and Count: Dealing with ‘Dual-Life’ Nouns (Kiss et al., *SEM 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/S17-1023.pdf