Evaluating and combining approaches to selectional preference acquisition

10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 27-34

  Brockmann, Carsten ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS-BASED; DIRECT OBJECTS; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; MODEL COMBINATION; MODELING PERFORMANCE; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES;

EID: 78650704320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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