Discovering asymmetric entailment relations between verbs using selectional preferences

  • Authors:
  • Fabio Massimo Zanzotto;Marco Pennacchiotti;Maria Teresa Pazienza

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy;University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy;University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate a novel method to detect asymmetric entailment relations between verbs. Our starting point is the idea that some point-wise verb selectional preferences carry relevant semantic information. Experiments using Word-Net as a gold standard show promising results. Where applicable, our method, used in combination with other approaches, significantly increases the performance of entailment detection. A combined approach including our model improves the AROC of 5% absolute points with respect to standard models.