Automatic verb classification based on statistical distributions of argument structure

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 373-406

  Merlo, Paola ^a   Stevenson, Suzanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARGUMENT STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC ACQUISITION; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; THEMATIC RELATIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0039190150     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120101317066122     Document Type: Article

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