Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs
| dc.creator | Dras, Mark | |
| dc.creator | Johnson, Mike | |
| dc.date | 1996-10-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:10:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:10:39Z | |
| dc.description | Some verbs have a particular kind of binary ambiguity: they can carry their normal, full meaning, or they can be merely acting as a prop for the nominal object. It has been suggested that there is a detectable pattern in the relationship between a verb acting as a prop (a \term{support verb}) and the noun it supports. The task this paper undertakes is to develop a model which identifies the support verb for a particular noun, and by extension, when nouns are enumerated, a model which disambiguates a verb with respect to its support status. The paper sets up a basic model as a standard for comparison; it then proposes a more complex model, and gives some results to support the model's validity, comparing it with other similar approaches. | |
| dc.description | LaTeX, 8 pages, uses aclap.sty | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9610001 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9610001 | |
| dc.identifier | CSNLP-96, Sept. 2-4, Dublin, Ireland | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151410 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.title | Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs | |
| dc.type | text |