Inferring selectional preferences from part-of-speech n-grams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL '12), pp. 377 - 386, April, 2012
Abstract
We present the PONG method to compute selectional preferences using part-of-speech (POS) N-grams. From a corpus labeled with grammatical dependencies, PONG learns the distribution of word relations for each POS N-gram. From the much larger but unlabeled Google N-grams corpus, PONG learns the distribution of POS N-grams for a given pair of words. We derive the probability that one word has a given grammatical relation to the other. PONG estimates this probability by combining both distributions, whether or not either word occurs in the labeled corpus. PONG achieves higher average precision on 16 relations than a state-of-the-art baseline in a pseudo-disambiguation task, but lower coverage and recall.
BibTeX
@conference{Jang-2012-122066,author = {Hyeju Jang and Jack Mostow},
title = {Inferring selectional preferences from part-of-speech n-grams},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL '12)},
year = {2012},
month = {April},
pages = {377 - 386},
}
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