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Using an ontology to determine English countability

Year: 2002

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper we show to what degree the countability of English nouns is predictable from their semantics. We found that at 78% of nouns' countability could be predicted using an ontology of 2,710 nodes. We also show how this predictability can be used to aid non-native speakers to determine the countability of English nouns when building a bilingual machine translation lexicon.

Source: International Conference on Computational Linguistics

DOI: 10.3115/1072228.1072280

Authors: Francis Bond, Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson

Institution: NTT (Japan)

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1976972029

FWCI: 3.255

Cites: 13

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10