[Corpora-List] Adjective target resolution

[Jason Skomorowski]

Does anyone know of an algorithm to determine if a term is modified by a
particular adjective, or a likely place to look for such?

Ideally, it would be something that could be feasibly run on all adjectives in
a large corpus.


While musing on the topic, I've come into some questions:

Adjectives used attributively modify nouns directly, usually by preceding
them.  Is it reasonable to assume then that an adjective is modifying the
rest of a noun phrase containing it?

Predicative adjectives are the object of a copular verb.  In English, does
limiting it to such verbs simplify the problem of resolving the subject beyond
the general problem?  Any good references on this topic?  I know some parsers
provide such resolution but these tended not to be performant.

Beyond normal attributive and predicative use, what are some notable cases
where special treatment would be required to find the target of an adjective?


As always, I appreciate the input from this list.

Best,

	Jason Skomorowski