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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Verb classes"”.
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Automatic induction of verb classes using clustering
Verb classifications have attracted a great deal of interest in both linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). They have proved useful for important tasks and applications, including e.g. computational lexicography, parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labelling, information …
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Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way?
<p>How do children learn that a verb like <em>negar</em>-‘to deny’ / <em>niego</em> - ‘I deny’ diphthongizes the 1st person present indicative, while it’s near minimal pair, <em>pegar</em>-‘to stick’ / <em>pego</em> - ‘I stick’, does not? To pursue this question, three small experiments were …
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The Classes of Old English Inaction Verbs: Linking, Alternations and Constructions
… To be more precise, it focuses on a group of verbs that can be called inaction verbs (roughly corresponding to Present-Day English end, try, fail, forbid, hinder and refrain) and aims at determining the class membership of these verbs. This is done on the basis of the meaning components and …
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Study and Lexicogrammatical Proposal of Physical Perception Verbs in English
… is twofold: a) to study one of the most relevant verb classes, the physical perception verb class, and b) to put forward a proposal for its lexicographical or, following Comesaña Rincón et al (2013), lexicogrammatical description. Despite the fact that this verb class has received substantial …
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Tataltepec Chatino verb classification and aspect morphology
The verb in a Chatino language bears a value for Aspect (a grammatical category of Zapotecan verbs which indicates a bundle of aspectual and modal features), marked with a prefix, a tonal change, or both. There is a moderate amount of allomorphy among the Aspect prefixes, and when verbs of …
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Illustrating the prototype structures of parts of speech: A multidimensional scaling analysis
… that emerge from the use of broad semantic classes of words--objects, properties, and actions--in basic propositional act functions of discourse--reference, modification, and predication. This theory predicts that each of these broad semantic classes will be typologically unmarked in its …
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Acquiring and Harnessing Verb Knowledge for Multilingual Natural Language Processing
… injection, with an emphasis on the category of verbs. To this end, I propose a novel paradigm for efficient acquisition of lexical knowledge leveraging native speakers’ intuitions about verb meaning to support development and downstream performance of NLP models across languages. First, I …