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Class-based probability estimation using a semantic hierarchy

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NAACL '01: Proceedings of the second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies

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https://doi.org/10.3115/1073336.1073349

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This paper concerns the acquisition of a particular kind of lexical knowledge, namely the knowledge of which noun senses can fill argument slots of predicates. Probabilities are used to represent the knowledge, and classes from a semantic hierarchy are used to estimate the probabilities. There is a particular focus on the problem of how to determine a suitable class, or level of generalisation, in the hierarchy. A pseudo disambiguation task is used to compare different class-based estimation methods.

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