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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| author | Bond, Francis Caitlin, Vatikiotis-Bateson |
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| description | 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
predictability can be used to aid non-native
speakers to determine the countability of English nouns when building a bilingual machine
translation lexicon. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/922582020-03-07T12:10:36Z Using an ontology to determine English countability Bond, Francis Caitlin, Vatikiotis-Bateson School of Humanities and Social Sciences International Conference on Computational Linguistics (19th : 2002 : Taipei, Taiwan) DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics 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 predictability can be used to aid non-native speakers to determine the countability of English nouns when building a bilingual machine translation lexicon. Accepted version 2011-06-13T04:10:52Z 2019-12-06T18:20:10Z 2011-06-13T04:10:52Z 2019-12-06T18:20:10Z 2002 2002 Conference Paper Bond, F., & Caitlin, V. B. (2002). Using an ontology to determine English countability. Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING-2002. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92258 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6817 10.3115/1072228.1072280 155577 en © 2002 ACL. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING-2002, Association for Computational Linguistics. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1072228.1072280]. 7 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Using an ontology to determine English countability |
| title_full | Using an ontology to determine English countability |
| title_fullStr | Using an ontology to determine English countability |
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| title_short | Using an ontology to determine English countability |
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| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92258 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6817 |
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