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  <Title>Sydney, July 2006. c(c)2006 Association for Computational Linguistics An Empirical Approach to the Interpretation of Superlatives</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we introduce an empirical approach to the semantic interpretation of superlative adjectives. We present a corpus annotated for superlatives and propose an interpretation algorithm that uses a wide-coverage parser and produces semantic representations. We achieve F-scores between 0.84 and 0.91 for detecting attributive superlatives and an accuracy in the range of 0.69-0.84 for determining the correct comparison set. As far as we are aware, this is the first automated approach to superlatives for open-domain texts and questions.</Paragraph>
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