Co-related verb argument selectional preferences

Hiram Calvo, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto

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Abstract

Learning Selectional Preferences has been approached as a verb and argument problem, or at most as a tri-nary relationship between subject, verb and object. The correlation of all arguments in a sentence, however, has not been extensively studied for sentence plausibility measuring because of the increased number of potential combinations and data sparseness. We propose a unified model for machine learning using SVM (Support Vector Machines) with features based on topic-projected words from a PLSI (Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing) Model and PMI (Pointwise Mutual Information) as co-occurrence features, and WordNet top concept projected words as semantic classes. We perform tests using a pseudo-disambiguation task. We found that considering all arguments in a sentence improves the correct identification of plausible sentences with an increase of 10% in recall among other things.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 12th International Conference, CICLing 2011, Proceedings
Pages133-143
Number of pages11
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2011 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 20 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume6608 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2011
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period20/02/1126/02/11

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