Author: Noriko Tomuro
Journal-ref: In Proceedings of the workshop on
Usage of WordNet in Natural
Language Processing Systems at the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '98) and the 36th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98)
This paper describes a semi-automatic method of inducing underspecified semantic classes from WordNet verbs and nouns. An underspecified semantic class is an abstract semantic class which encodes systematic polysemy: a set of word senses that are related in systematic and predictable ways. We show the usefulness of the induced classes in the semantic interpretations and contextual inferences of real-word texts by applying them to the predicate-argument structures in Brown corpus.
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