Statistical measures of the semi-productivity of light verb constructions

Statistical measures of the semi-productivity of light verb constructions. Stevenson, S., Fazly, A., & North, R. In Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing, pages 1–8, Barcelona, Spain, August, 2004.
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We propose a statistical measure for the degree of acceptability of light verb constructions, such as take a walk, based on their linguistic properties. Our measure shows good correlations with human ratings on unseen test data. Moreover, we find that our measure correlates more strongly when the potential complements of the construction (such as walk, stroll, or run) are separated into semantically similar classes. Our analysis demonstrates the systematic nature of the roductivity of these constructions.

@InProceedings{	  stevenson1,
  author	= {Suzanne Stevenson and Afsaneh Fazly and Ryan North},
  title		= {Statistical measures of the semi-productivity of light
		  verb constructions},
  year		= {2004},
  month		= {August},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword
		  Expressions: Integrating Processing},
  pages		= {1--8},
  address	= {Barcelona, Spain},
  download	= {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Eryan/mwe04-ref.pdf},
  abstract	= {<p>We propose a statistical measure for the degree of
		  acceptability of light verb constructions, such as <i>take
		  a walk</i>, based on their linguistic properties. Our
		  measure shows good correlations with human ratings on
		  unseen test data. Moreover, we find that our measure
		  correlates more strongly when the potential complements of
		  the construction (such as <i>walk</i>, <i>stroll</i>, or
		  <i>run</i>) are separated into semantically similar
		  classes. Our analysis demonstrates the systematic nature of
		  the roductivity of these constructions.</p>}
}

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