Lapata, Maria, Scott McDonald, and Frank Keller. 1999. Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 30-36. Bergen.
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.
@InProceedings{Lapata:ea:99,
author = {Maria Lapata and Scott McDonald and Frank Keller},
title = {Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility},
crossref = {EACL:99},
pages = {30--36}
}
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title = {Proceedings of the 9th~Conference of the European
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