An Investigation of Chinese Selectional Preference Based on HowNet

Selectional Preferences (SPs) in verb-object(VO) constructions have been widely used in NLP applications, such as WSD, metaphor comprehension etc. To estimate the number of verbs that have strong SPs, 38,119 VO types of 1,462 verbs are extracted from "Modern Chinese Cihai", tagged in How N...

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Published in2010 Fourth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing pp. 236 - 239
Main Authors Bin Li, Xiaohe Chen, Xuri Tang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2010
Subjects
Computational linguistics
Contracts
Dictionaries
Entropy
Pragmatics
selectional preference
semantic class
semantic feature
Semantics
Tagging
verb-object
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Summary:Selectional Preferences (SPs) in verb-object(VO) constructions have been widely used in NLP applications, such as WSD, metaphor comprehension etc. To estimate the number of verbs that have strong SPs, 38,119 VO types of 1,462 verbs are extracted from "Modern Chinese Cihai", tagged in How Net sense inventory with automatic tagging algorithm, The statistics indicates that only about 50% verbs have strong SPs, while another 50% have to be well analyzed within the cognitive linguistic frames.
ISBN:9781424488919
1424488915
DOI:10.1109/ICGEC.2010.65