Using an ontology to determine English countability

In this paper we show to what degree the countability of English nouns is predictable from their semantics. We found that at 78% of nouns' countability could be predicted using an ontology of 2,710 nodes. We also show how this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bond, Francis, Caitlin, Vatikiotis-Bateson
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92258
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6817