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title: "\"Tall\", \"Good\", \"High\" - Compared to What?"
authors:
  - "Steffen Staab"
  - "Udo Hahn"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/144"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0144.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "996-1000"
track: "Natural-language Processing and Graphical Presentation"
keywords:
---

# "Tall", "Good", "High" - Compared to What?

Steffen Staab, Udo Hahn

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 996-1000.

## Abstract

We specify a model for the conceptual interpretation of positive gradable adjectives. Building on a classification-based terminological reasoning approach we define comparison classes and class norms and specify how a degree is related to its corresponding class norm.