Co-related verb argument selectional preferences

  • Authors:
  • Hiram Calvo;Kentaro Inui;Yuji Matsumoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Computational Linguistics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan;Communication Science Lab., Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, Japan;Computational Linguistics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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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 cooccurrence 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.