A large-scale classification of English verbs

K Kipper, A Korhonen, N Ryant, M Palmer - Language Resources and …, 2008 - Springer
Lexical classifications have proved useful in supporting various natural language
processing (NLP) tasks. The largest verb classification for English is Levin's (1993) work …

Using the web to obtain frequencies for unseen bigrams

F Keller, M Lapata - Computational linguistics, 2003 - direct.mit.edu
This article shows that the Web can be employed to obtain frequencies for bigrams that are
unseen in a given corpus. We describe a method for retrieving counts for adjective-noun …

[PDF][PDF] Extending VerbNet with Novel Verb Classes.

K Kipper, A Korhonen, N Ryant, M Palmer - LREC, 2006 - academia.edu
Lexical classifications have proved useful in supporting various natural language
processing (NLP) tasks. The largest verb classification for English is Levin's (1993) work …

Experiments on the automatic induction of German semantic verb classes

SS Im Walde - Computational Linguistics, 2006 - direct.mit.edu
This article presents clustering experiments on German verbs: A statistical grammar model
for German serves as the source for a distributional verb description at the lexical syntax …

Web-based models for natural language processing

M Lapata, F Keller - ACM Transactions on Speech and Language …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Previous work demonstrated that Web counts can be used to approximate bigram counts,
suggesting that Web-based frequencies should be useful for a wide variety of Natural …

[PDF][PDF] Extended lexical-semantic classification of English verbs

A Korhonen, T Briscoe - Proceedings of the Computational …, 2004 - aclanthology.org
Lexical-semantic verb classifications have proved useful in supporting various natural
language processing (NLP) tasks. The largest and the most widely deployed classification in …

[PDF][PDF] The web as a baseline: Evaluating the performance of unsupervised web-based models for a range of NLP tasks

M Lapata, F Keller - … Conference of the North American Chapter of …, 2004 - aclanthology.org
Previous work demonstrated that web counts can be used to approximate bigram
frequencies, and thus should be useful for a wide variety of NLP tasks. So far, only two …

[PDF][PDF] Inducing German semantic verb classes from purely syntactic subcategorisation information

SS im Walde, C Brew - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of …, 2002 - aclanthology.org
The paper describes the application of k-Means, a standard clustering technique, to the task
of inducing semantic classes for German verbs. Using probability distributions over verb …

Verb class discovery from rich syntactic data

L Sun, A Korhonen, Y Krymolowski - International conference on intelligent …, 2008 - Springer
Previous research has shown that syntactic features are the most informative features in
automatic verb classification. We investigate their optimal characteristics by comparing a …

Lexicalized stochastic modeling of constraint-based grammars using log-linear measures and EM training

S Riezler, D Prescher, J Kuhn, M Johnson - arxiv preprint cs/0008034, 2000 - arxiv.org
We present a new approach to stochastic modeling of constraint-based grammars that is
based on log-linear models and uses EM for estimation from unannotated data. The …