Determinants of adjective-noun plausibility

Maria Lapata; Scott McDonald; Frank Keller

doi:10.3115/977035.977041

Determinants of adjective-noun plausibility

Maria Lapata, Scott McDonald, Frank Keller

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Abstract

This paper explores the determinants of adjective-noun plausibility by using correlation analysis to compare judgements elicited from human subjects with five corpus-based variables: co-occurrence frequency of the adjective-noun pair, noun frequency, conditional probability of the noun given the adjective, the log-likelihood ratio, and Resnik's (1993) selectional association measure. The highest correlation is obtained with the co-occurrence frequency, which points to the strongly lexicalist and collocational nature of adjective-noun combinations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 1999)
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	30-36
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/977035.977041
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 1999
Externally published	Yes
Event	9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Bergen, Norway Duration: 8 Jun 1999 → 12 Jun 1999

Conference

Conference	9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	EACL 1999
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Bergen
Period	8/06/99 → 12/06/99

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Language and Linguistics
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Lapata, M, McDonald, S & Keller, F 1999, Determinants of adjective-noun plausibility. in Proceedings of 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 1999). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 30-36, 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bergen, Norway, 8/06/99. https://doi.org/10.3115/977035.977041

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