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A Pilot Study of English Selectional Preferences and Their Cross-Lingual Compatibility with Basque

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2003)

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The specific goals of this experiment are to study automatically acquired English selectional preferences from a number of sources, and to assess portability and compatibility issues with regard to selectional preferences acquired for Basque. We decided to study a wide-range of techniques and issues, with the aim of providing an analysis of the interplay of selectional-learning techniques, domain and multilinguality. The overall goal is the acquisition of complex lexical information for verbs (both syntactic and semantic) using multilingual sources.

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  1. IxA NLP group, University of the Basque Country, 649 pk., E-20080, Donostia, Basque Country

    Eneko Agirre, Izaskun Aldezabal & Eli Pociello

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Univerzitni 8, 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic

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Agirre, E., Aldezabal, I., Pociello, E. (2003). A Pilot Study of English Selectional Preferences and Their Cross-Lingual Compatibility with Basque. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39398-6_3

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