Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements

Eduardo Blanco; Dan Moldovan

Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements

Eduardo Blanco, Dan Moldovan

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Abstract

Negated statements often carry positive implicit meaning. Regardless of the semantic representation one adopts, pinpointing the positive concepts within a negated statement is needed in order to encode the statement's meaning. In this paper, novel ideas to reveal positive implicit meaning using focus of negation are presented. The concept of granularity of focus is introduced and justified. New annotation and features to detect fine-grained focus are discussed and results reported.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	456-465
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	1937284204, 9781937284206
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2012 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Jun 3 2012 → Jun 8 2012

Publication series

Name	NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference	2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2012
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	6/3/12 → 6/8/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language

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Blanco, E., & Moldovan, D. (2012). Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 456-465). (NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements. / Blanco, Eduardo; Moldovan, Dan.
Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012. p. 456-465 (NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Blanco, E & Moldovan, D 2012, Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements. in Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 456-465, 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2012, Montreal, Canada, 6/3/12.

Blanco E, Moldovan D. Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2012. p. 456-465. (NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference).

Blanco, Eduardo ; Moldovan, Dan. / Fine-grained focus for pinpointing positive implicit meaning from negated statements. Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012. pp. 456-465 (NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference).

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