Nominal Compound Interpretation by Intelligent Agents

  • McShane M
  • Beale S
  • Babkin P
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Abstract

This paper presents a cognitively-inspired algorithm for the semantic analysis of nominal compounds by intelligent agents. The agents, modeled within the OntoAgent environment, are tasked to compute a full context-sensitive semantic interpretation of each compound using a battery of engines that rely on a high-quality computational lexicon and ontology. Rather than being treated as an isolated “task”, as in many NLP approaches, nominal compound analysis in OntoAgent represents a minimal extension to the core process of semantic analysis. We hypothesize that seeking similarities across language analysis tasks reflects the spirit of how people approach language interpretation, and that this approach will make feasible the long-term development of truly sophisticated, human-like intelligent agents. The initial evaluation of our approach to nominal compounds are fixed expressions, requiring individual semantic specification at the lexical level.

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McShane, M., Beale, S., & Babkin, P. (2014). Nominal Compound Interpretation by Intelligent Agents. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 10. https://doi.org/10.33011/lilt.v10i.1351

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