Class-based probability estimation using a semantic hierarchy

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Clark;David Weir

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

  • Venue:
  • NAACL '01 Proceedings of the second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper concerns the acquisition of a particular kind of lexical knowledge, namely the knowledge of which noun senses can fill argument slots of predicates. Probabilities are used to represent the knowledge, and classes from a semantic hierarchy are used to estimate the probabilities. There is a particular focus on the problem of how to determine a suitable class, or level of generalisation, in the hierarchy. A pseudo disambiguation task is used to compare different class-based estimation methods.