English Phrasal Verbs in Ontological Semantics

The purpose of the present study is to describe and
analyze the acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs
into the Knowledge Base Acquisition Editor, a
Natural Language Processing database based on the
framework of the ontological semantics theory. The
present study is an account for both structural and
semantic diversity of phrasal verbs. By classifying
phrasal verbs into subgroups according to their
meaning and then distributing them among four basic
templates with respect to their composition and
permissible orders within the phrasal group, the
study suggests a methodology for covering a wide
variety of meanings and argues for listing not only
non-compositional, but also literal metaphorically
extended senses. The results of the acquisition are
considered in the light of the sense disambiguation
problem in computational semantics.

Auteur

After completing her PhD at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, Julija returned to her home country, Lithuania. She currently teaches both practical and theoretical courses at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Vilnius University.

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The purpose of the present study is to describe and analyze the acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs into the Knowledge Base Acquisition Editor, a Natural Language Processing database based on the framework of the ontological semantics theory. The present study is an account for both structural and semantic diversity of phrasal verbs. By classifying phrasal verbs into subgroups according to their meaning and then distributing them among four basic templates with respect to their composition and permissible orders within the phrasal group, the study suggests a methodology for covering a wide variety of meanings and argues for listing not only non-compositional, but also literal metaphorically extended senses. The results of the acquisition are considered in the light of the sense disambiguation problem in computational semantics.