Distributional measures of lexical similarity and kernel methods for classification are well-known tools in Natural Language Processing. We bring these two methods together by int...
This paper explores methods to alleviate the effect of lexical sparseness in the classification of verbal arguments. We show how automatically generated selectional preferences ar...
In recent years, blogs and social networks have particularly boosted interests for opinion mining research. In order to satisfy real-scale applicative needs, a main task is to cre...
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...