English Phrasal Verbs in Ontological Semantics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783639054231)

The purpose of the present study is to describe and analyze the acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs into the Knowledge Base Acquisition Editor, a Natural Language Processing database based on the framework of the ontological semantics theory. The present study is an account for both structural and semantic diversity of phrasal verbs. By classifying phrasal verbs into subgroups according to their meaning and then distributing them among four basic templates with respect to their composition and permissible orders within the phrasal group, the study suggests a methodology for covering a wide variety of meanings and argues for listing not only non-compositional, but also literal metaphorically extended senses. The results of the acquisition are considered in the light of the sense disambiguation problem in computational semantics.

Author: Julija Korostenskaja
ISBN-10: 3639054237
ISBN-13: 9783639054231
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d