GermaNet Synsets as Selectional Preferences in Semantic Verb Clustering
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WordNet and its German version GermaNet have widely been used as source for fine-grained selectional preference information, focusing on but not restricted to verb-object relationships (Resnik, 1997; Ribas, 1995; Li and Abe, 1998; Abney and Light, 1999; Wagner, 2000; McCarthy, 2001; Clark and Weir, 2002). In contrast, this paper presents an approach where argument slots of variable verb-frame combinations are refined by coarse selectional preferences as obtained from the top-level GermaNet nodes. The selectional preference information is applied to an alternation-like verb description and successfully utilised for an automatic clustering of German verbs (Schulte im Walde, 2003b).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- LDV Forum
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004