Probabilistic models of verb-argument structure

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Gildea

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We evaluate probabilistic models of verb argument structure trained on a corpus of verbs and their syntactic arguments. Models designed to represent patterns of verb alternation behavior are compared with generic clustering models in terms of the perplexity assigned to held-out test data. While the specialized models of alternation do not perform as well, closer examination reveals alternation behavior represented implicitly in the generic models.