Detecting verbal participation in diathesis alternations

  • Authors:
  • Diana McCarthy;Anna Korhonen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACL '98 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We present a method for automatically identifying verbal participation in diathesis alternations. Automatically acquired subcategorization frames are compared to a hand-crafted classification for selecting candidate verbs. The minimum description length principle is then used to produce a model and cost for storing the head noun instances from a training corpus at the relevant argument slots. Alternating subcategorization frames are identified where the data from corresponding argument slots in the respective frames can be combined to produce a cheaper model than that produced if the data is encoded separately.