Brockmann (2003):
Evaluating Approaches to Selectional Preference Acquisition
against German Plausibility Judgments

Brockmann, Carsten (2003). Evaluating approaches to selectional preference acquisition against German plausibility judgments. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium (CLUK-6), Edinburgh, UK, pp. 71–78.

Abstract

Previous research on the automatic acquisition of selectional preference information has mainly focused on English and on the relation between verbs and their direct objects. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of models of selectional preferences for German verbs and take into account not only direct objects, but also subjects and prepositional complements. A variety of parameter settings are explored. The preference values are compared to human judgments elicited in a magnitude estimation experiment. The results indicate that there exist significant linear correlations between the human judgments and different single algorithms, depending on the grammatical relation being observed.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{b03:easpagpj,
  author =	 {Brockmann, Carsten},
  title =	 {Evaluating Approaches to Selectional Preference Acquisition
                  against {G}erman Plausibility Judgments},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium
                  (CLUK-6)},
  pages =	 {71--78},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Edinburgh, UK}
}