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ACL ID | P13-2129 |
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Title | Diathesis alternation approximation for verb clustering |
Venue | Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics |
Session | Short Paper |
Year | 2013 |
Authors |
Although diathesis alternations have been used as features for manual verb clas- sification, and there is recent work on incorporating such features in computa- tional models of human language acquisi- tion, work on large scale verb classifica- tion has yet to examine the potential for using diathesis alternations as input fea- tures to the clustering process. This pa- per proposes a method for approximating diathesis alternation behaviour in corpus data and shows, using a state-of-the-art verb clustering system, that features based on alternation approximation outperform those based on independent subcategoriza- tion frames. Our alternation-based ap- proach is particularly adept at leveraging information from less frequent data.