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ACL
1989
13 years 4 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of the Lexical Semantics of Verbs from Sentence Frames
This paper presents a computational model ofverb acquisitionwhich uses what we willcallthe principle of structured overeommitment to eliminate the need for negative evidence. The ...
Mort Webster, Mitchell P. Marcus
LREC
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora
In this paper, we reported experiments of unsupervised automatic acquisition of Italian and English verb subcategorization frames (SCFs) from general and domain corpora. The propo...
Alessandro Lenci, Barbara McGillivray, Simonetta M...
LREC
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Towards Spanish Verbs' Selectional Preferences Automatic Acquisition: Semantic Annotation of the SenSem Corpus
We present the results of an agreement task carried out in the framework of the KNOW Project and consisting in manually annotating an agreement sample totaling 50 sentences extrac...
Jordi Carrera, Irene Castellón, Salvador Cl...
COLING
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Lexical Acquisition Based on Statistical Distributions
We automatically classify verbs into lexical semantic classes, based on distributions of indicators of verb alternations, extracted from a very large annotated corpus. We address ...
Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo
AAAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
The Ups and Downs of Lexical Acquisition
We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...
Peter M. Hastings, Steven L. Lytinen