1. LALEH ROOSTAPOUR
Information acquired: 2025
LALEH ROOSTAPOUR is an academic who published a paper in 2014 entitled Automatic Classification of Communicative Functions of Definiteness. LALEH ROOSTAPOUR published this work as part of a team: Bhatia, Archna. Here is a description of this work: Def,,niteness expresses a constellation of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse propertiesâ€"the communicative functionsâ€"of an NP. We present a supervised classifier for English NPs that uses lexical, morphological, and syntactic features to predict an NP's communicative function in terms of a language-universal classification scheme. Our classifiers establish strong baselines for future work in this neglected area of computational semantic analysis. In addition, analysis of the features and learned parameters in the model provides insight into the grammaticalization of definiteness in English, not all of which is obvious a priori..
