Distributional Interaction of Concreteness and Abstractness in Verb–Noun Subcategorisation

Frassinelli, Diego; Schulte im Walde, Sabine

Distributional Interaction of Concreteness and Abstractness in Verb–Noun Subcategorisation

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2019

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Frassinelli, Diego

Schulte im Walde, Sabine

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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics : Short Papers / Dobnik, Simon; Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios; Demberg, Vera (ed.). - Stroudsburg, PA : ACL, 2019. - pp. 38-43. - ISBN 978-1-950737-20-8

Abstract

In recent years, both cognitive and computational research has provided empirical analyses of contextual co-occurrence of concrete and abstract words, partially resulting in inconsistent pictures. In this work we provide a more fine-grained description of the distributional nature in the corpus-based interaction of verbs and nouns within subcategorisation, by investigating the concreteness of verbs and nouns that are in a specific syntactic relationship with each other, i.e., subject, direct object, and prepositional object. Overall, our experiments show consistent patterns in the distributional representation of subcategorising and subcategorised concrete and abstract words. At the same time, the studies reveal empirical evidence why contextual abstractness represents a valuable indicator for automatic non-literal language identification.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

Conference

13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, May 23, 2019 - May 27, 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden

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FRASSINELLI, Diego, Sabine SCHULTE IM WALDE, 2019. Distributional Interaction of Concreteness and Abstractness in Verb–Noun Subcategorisation. 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics. Gothenburg, Sweden, May 23, 2019 - May 27, 2019. In: DOBNIK, Simon, ed., Stergios CHATZIKYRIAKIDIS, ed., Vera DEMBERG, ed.. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics : Short Papers. Stroudsburg, PA:ACL, pp. 38-43. ISBN 978-1-950737-20-8. Available under: doi: 10.18653/v1/W19-0506

BibTex

@inproceedings{Frassinelli2019Distr-59699,
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  doi={10.18653/v1/W19-0506},
  title={Distributional Interaction of Concreteness and Abstractness in Verb–Noun Subcategorisation},
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  publisher={ACL},
  address={Stroudsburg, PA},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics : Short Papers},
  pages={38--43},
  editor={Dobnik, Simon and Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Demberg, Vera},
  author={Frassinelli, Diego and Schulte im Walde, Sabine}
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