Distributed Representations of Lexical Sets and Prototypes in Causal Alternation Verbs

Lexical sets contain the words filling an argument slot of a verb, and are in part determined by selectional preferences. The purpose of this paper is to unravel the properties of lexical sets through distributional semantics. We investigate 1) whether lexical set behave as prototypical categories w...

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Main Authors: Edoardo Maria Ponti, Bernardo Magnini, Elisabetta Jezek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Accademia University Press 2017-06-01
Series:IJCoL
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ijcol/424