Grounding the Lexical Sets of Causative-Inchoative Verbs with Word Embedding
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چکیده
English. Lexical sets contain the words filling the argument positions of a verb in one of its senses. They can be extracted from corpora automatically. The purpose of this paper is demonstrating that their vector representation based on word embedding provides insights onto many linguistic phenomena, such as causativeinchoative verbs. A first experiment aims at investigating the internal structure of the sets, which are known to be radial and continuous categories cognitively. A second experiment shows that the distance between the intransitive subject set and transitive object set is correlated with the spontaneity of the event expressed by the verb, defined according to morphological coding and frequency. Italiano. I set lessicali contengono le parole che occupano le posizioni argomentali di un verbo in una delle sue accezioni, e possono essere estratti in modo automatico dai corpora. L’obiettivo di questo articolo è dimostrare che la loro rappresentazione vettoriale illumina alcuni fenomeni linguistici, come i verbi ad alternanza causativo-incoativa. Un esperimento investiga la struttura interna degli insiemi, che a livello cognitivo sono ritenuti categorie radiali e continue. Inoltre, un secondo esperimento mostra che la distanza fra l’insieme dei soggetti intransitivi e l’insieme degli oggetti transitivi è correlata alla spontaneità dell’evento espresso dal verbo, definita secondo la marca morfologica e la frequenza.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1610.00765 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016