Exciting and interesting: issues in the generation of binomials

Authors:
Ann Copestake;Aurélie Herbelot
Affiliations:
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;Universität Potsdam, Germany
Venue:
UCNLG+EVAL '11 Proceedings of the UCNLG+Eval: Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We discuss the preferred ordering of elements of binomials (e.g., conjunctions such as fish and chips, lager and lime, exciting and interesting) and provide a detailed critique of Benor and Levy's probabilistic account of English binomials. In particular, we discuss the extent to which their approach is suitable as a model of language generation. We describe resources we have developed for the investigation of binomials using a combination of parsed corpora and very large unparsed corpora. We discuss the use of these resources in developing models of binomial ordering, concentrating in particular on the evaluation issues which arise.