Automatic Semantic Classification of Verbs from Their Syntactic Contexts: An Implemented Classifier for Stativity

Michael R. Brent

Automatic Semantic Classification of Verbs from Their Syntactic Contexts: An Implemented Classifier for Stativity

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This paper discusses an implemented program that automatically classifies verbs into those that ~ describe only states of the world, such as to know, and those that describe events, such as to look. It works by exploiting the con, straint between the syntactic environments in which a verb can occur and its meaning. The only input is on-line text. This demonstrates an important new technique for the automatic generation of lexical databases.

Original language	English
Pages	222-226
Number of pages	5
State	Published - 1991
Event	5th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 1991 - Proceedings - Berlin, Germany Duration: Apr 9 1991 → Apr 11 1991

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Conference	5th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 1991 - Proceedings
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	04/9/91 → 04/11/91

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