A flexible, corpus-driven model of regular and inverse selectional preferences

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 723-763

  Erk, Katrin ^a   Padó, Sebastian ^b   Padó, Ulrike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Vico Research and Consulting GmbH

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; VECTOR SPACES;

COGNITIVE TASK; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LEXICAL RESOURCES; PREDICTION QUALITY; ROBUST PARAMETERS; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; SEMANTIC ROLES; SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78650705607     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00017     Document Type: Article

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