Automatic Distinction of Arguments and Modi ers: the Case of Prepositional Phrases
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The automatic distinction of arguments and modiiers is a necessary step for the automatic acquisition of subcategorisation frames and argument structure. In this work, we report on supervised learning experiments to learn this distinction for the diicult case of prepositional phrases attached to the verb. We develop statistical indicators of linguistic diagnostics for argumenthood, and we approximate them with counts extracted from an annotated corpus. We reach an accuracy of 86.5%,over a baseline of 74% , showing that this novel method is promising in solving this diicult problem.
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Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the case of prepositional phrases
The automatic distinction of arguments and modiiers is a necessary step for the automatic acquisition of subcategorisation frames and argument structure. In this work, we report on supervised learning experiments to learn this distinction for the diicult case of prepositional phrases attached to the verb. We develop statistical indicators of linguistic diagnostics for argumenthood, and we appro...
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