Large, huge or gigantic? Identifying and encoding intensity relations among adjectives in WordNet.
We propose a new semantic relation for gradable adjectives in WordNet, which enriches the present, vague, similar relation with information on the degree or intensity with which different adjectives express a shared attribute. Using lexical-semantic patterns, we mine the Web for evidence of the rela...
| Publicado en: | Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 797 - 817 |
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