Automatically distinguishing literal and figurative usages of highly polysemous verbs. Fazly, A., North, R., & Stevenson, S. In Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition, Ann Arbor, MI, June, 2005.
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We investigate the meaning extensions of very frequent and highly polysemous verbs, both in terms of their compositional contribution to a light verb construction (LVC), and the patterns of acceptability of the resulting LVC. We develop compositionality and acceptability measures that draw on linguistic properties specific to LVCs, and demonstrate that these statistical, corpus-based measures correlate well with human judgments of each property.
@InProceedings{	  fazly4,
  author	= {Afsaneh Fazly and Ryan North and Suzanne Stevenson},
  title		= {Automatically distinguishing literal and figurative usages
		  of highly polysemous verbs},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical
		  Acquisition},
  address	= {Ann Arbor, MI},
  month		= {June},
  year		= {2005},
  abstract	= {We investigate the meaning extensions of very frequent and
		  highly polysemous verbs, both in terms of their
		  compositional contribution to a light verb construction
		  (LVC), and the patterns of acceptability of the resulting
		  LVC. We develop compositionality and acceptability measures
		  that draw on linguistic properties specific to LVCs, and
		  demonstrate that these statistical, corpus-based measures
		  correlate well with human judgments of each property.},
  download	= {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Fazly-etal-2005.pdf}
}

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