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Using semantic preferences to identify verbal participation in role switching alternations

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posted on 2023-06-07, 14:12 authored by Diana Frances McCarthy
We propose a method for identifying diathesis alternations where a particular argument type is seen in slots which have different grammatical roles in the alternating forms. The method uses selectional preferences acquired as probability distributions over WordNet. Preferences for the target slots are compared using a measure of distributional similarity. The method is evaluated on the causative and conative alternations, but is generally applicable and does not require a priori knowledge specific to the alternation.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Proceedings of the first conference on North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Publisher

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc

Volume

4

Page range

256-263

Pages

344.0

Book title

Proceedings of the first conference on North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle, USA

Place of publication

San Francisco, CA, USA

Series

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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  • Informatics Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2008-02-26

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