Learning class-to-class selectional preferences

  • Authors:
  • Eneko Agirre;David Martinez

  • Affiliations:
  • University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain;University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ConLL '01 Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning - Volume 7
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Selectional preference learning methods have usually focused on word-to-class relations, e.g., a verb selects as its subject a given nominal class. This papers extends previous statistical models to class-to-class preferences, and presents a model that learns selectional preferences for classes of verbs. The motivation is twofold: different senses of a verb may have different preferences, and some classes of verbs can share preferences. The model is tested on a word sense disambiguation task which uses subject-verb and object-verb relationships extracted from a small sense-disambiguated corpus.