Detecting compositionality of verb-object combinations using selectional preferences

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 369-379

  McCarthy, Diana ^a   Venkatapathy, Sriram ^b   Joshi, Aravind K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONALITY; DATA SETS; HEAD DATA; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; THREE MODELS; WORDNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THESAURI;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77958577095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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