Semantic Annotation - VISL

what is a semantic prototype
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semantic prototype classes perceived as distinctors
rather than semantic definitions
intended to at the same time
– capture semantically motivated regularities and relations in
syntax by similarity-lumping (syntax-restrictions, IR, anaphora)
– distinguish different senses (polysemy)
– select different translation equivalents in MT
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prototypes seen as (idealized) best instance of a given
class of entities (Rosch 1978)
but: class hypernym tags used ( for “land
animal”) rather than low-level-prototypes ( or
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