Nominalizations in the LKB framework

Abstract

One of the main purposes in current computational lexicography is to determine methods to allow the acquisition of lexical knowledge. One of the facilities of the Acquilex Lexical Knowledge Base is the possibility of defining lexical rules. These rules are used for generating new lexical entries from the existing ones, capturing linguistic generalizations which will be reflected in the new entries. In this paper we focus on one kind of lexical rules which allows the generation of noun entries from verbs. We present the nominalization problem in Spanish and how to represent it in the LKB. The nouns created refer to the agent, patient, and action of the origin verbs