Re: [Corpora-List] NP-head complements vs. NP-head modifiers

From: Liliana Mamani Sanchez (lilipms7@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 21:25:30 MET

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    Hi, I'm working with some stuff of this kind, but still is in progress
    and it's for portuguese language.
    May be you have knowledge of this, however, I think good references
    are the works of Paola Merlo:
    "The Notion of Argument in PP Attachment"
    " Automatic Distinction of Arguments and Modifiers: the Case of
    Prepositional Phrases"

    Best regards,

    Liliana

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    http://de9.ime.eb.br/~lpsanchez

    On 11/21/06, Silke Scheible <S.Scheible@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > Does anyone know of any studies that try to automatically distinguish
    > between NP-head complements and NP-head modifiers? By this I mean the
    > difference between:
    >
    > [PRE-HEAD]
    > i. a *linguistics* student (complement)
    > ii. a *first-year* student (modifier)
    >
    > [POST-HEAD]
    > i. a report *on the crash* (complement)
    > ii. a report *in the paper* (modifier)
    >
    > where cases [i.] are complements of the NP head, while cases [ii.] are
    > modifiers. (Examples taken from Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 439).)
    >
    > Any help would be much appreciated!
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Silke
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > Silke Scheible
    > PhD student
    > Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS)
    > School of Informatics
    > University of Edinburgh
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >

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