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Using Semantic Preferences to Identify Verbal Participation in Role Switching Alternations.

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:31 authored by Diana 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 cona- rive alternations, but is generally applicable and does not require a priori knowledge specific to the alternation.

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  • Published

Publisher

The Association for Computational Linguistics

Page range

256-263

Presentation Type

  • paper

Event name

Proceedings of the First Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

Event location

Seattle WA.

Event type

conference

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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