Human associations and the choice of features for semantic verb classification

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-111

  Schulte Im Walde, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association norms; Clustering experiments; Distributional features; Semantic verb classes

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349119340     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-008-9044-8     Document Type: Article

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