Maria Lapata
Maria Lapata has 2 papers in our library, in 2002–2003; often with Alex Lascarides.
OpenAlex · h-index 12 · 23 works · 645 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 51 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5290
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🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh ·
United Kingdom1999–2003 · 7 papers🎓Saarland UniversitySaarbrücken ·
Germany2001 · 2 papers
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📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works
💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Cognitive linguistics · 1 work
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2000s
Papers
- The Disambiguation of Nominalizations (2002 · 133 citations)
The article addresses the automatic interpretation of nominalizations. These are noun compounds in which the head noun comes from a verb and the modifier fills one of that verb's argument slots, as in car lover . Lapata reduces the task to a binary choice: is the modifier the underlying subject or the direct object… - A Probabilistic Account of Logical Metonymy (2003 · 118 citations)
Logical metonymy covers phrases where a verb or adjective needs an event, but the syntax supplies only an entity noun.
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