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Using an Ontology to Determine English Countability

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Using an Ontology to Determine English Countability
In this paper we show to what degree the countability of English nouns is predictable from their semantics. We found that at 78% of nouns' countability could be predicted using an ontology of 2,710 nodes. We also show how this predictability can be used to aid non-native speakers to determine the countability of English nouns when building a bilingual machine translation lexicon.
Francis Bond, Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson
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Type Journal
Year 2002
Where COLING
Authors Francis Bond, Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson
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