A Dictionary of Nominal Complements

理解自然语言文本的核心任务是确定其谓词-论元结构--谁对谁做了什么？ 确定这些信息需要了解文本中单词的论元结构。 纽约大学为自然语言处理而开发的COMLEX语言处理器提供了有关动词语法的详细信息，但没有关于名词的丰富资源。 这个项目为这样一个字典开发了一个设计，并为大约1,600个带参数的常见名词创建了条目。 词典条目是使用基于菜单的界面创建的，该界面提供了对大量文本索引的访问，并允许编码器在条目过程中捕获相关引用。 这是为自然语言研究社区提供广泛的文本分析资源的第一步。

Central to the task of understanding a natural language text is determining its predicate-argument structure -- the Owho did what to whomO information about the text. Determining this information requires knowledge about the argument structure of words in the text. COMLEX Syntax, developed at NYU for natural language processing, provides detailed information about the syntax of verbs, but there is no comparably rich resource for nouns. This project develops a design for such a dictionary and creates entries for approximately 1,600 commonly occurring nouns which take arguments. The dictionary entries are created using a menu-based interface which provides access to a large text concordance and allows coders to capture relevant citations during the entry process. This is the first step to providing the natural language research community with a broad-coverage resource for text analysis.