Alessandra Zarcone
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DeScript: A Crowdsourced Corpus for the Acquisition of High-Quality Script Knowledge
Scripts are standardized event sequences describing typical everyday activities, which play an important role in the computational …
Lilian D. A. Wanzare
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Alessandra Zarcone
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Stefan Thater
,
Manfred Pinkal
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ACL Anthology
Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone
,
Sebastian Padó
,
Alessandro Lenci
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Fitting, not clashing! A distributional semantic model of logical metonymy
Logical metonymy interpretation (e.g.
begin the book → writing
) has received wide attention in linguistics. Experimental results have …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Alessandro Lenci
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Sebastian Padó
,
Jason Utt
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ACL Anthology
The curious case of metonymic verbs: A distributional characterization
Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g.,
The writer began the novel
), triggering a covert …
Jason Utt
,
Alessandro Lenci
,
Sebastian Padó
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Alessandra Zarcone
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ACL Anthology
Inferring Covert Events in Logical Metonymies: a Probe Recognition Experiment
It has been widely acknowledged that the interpretation of logical metonymies involves the interpretation of covert events (
begin the …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Sebastian Padó
,
Alessandro Lenci
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Modeling covert event retrieval in logical metonymy: probabilistic and distributional accounts
Logical metonymies (
The student finished the beer
) represent a challenge to compositionality since they involve semantic content not …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Jason Utt
,
Sebastian Padó
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ACL Anthology
Logical metonymies and qualia structures: an annotated database of logical metonymies for German
Logical metonymies like
The author began the book
involve the interpretation of events that are not realized in the sentence (Covert …
Stefan Rüd
,
Alessandra Zarcone
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ACL Anthology
Aktionsarten, speech and gesture
Two studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between the production and comprehension of Aktionsarten (verbally expressed …
Raymond Becker
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Alan Cienki
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Austin Bennett
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Christina Cudina
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Camille Debras
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Zuzanna Fleischer
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Michael Haaheim
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Torsten Müller
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Kashmiri Stec
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Alessandra Zarcone
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Generalized Event Knowledge in Logical Metonymy Resolution
The interpretation of logical metonymies like
begin the book
has traditionally been explained by assuming the existence of complex …
Alessandra Zarcone
,
Sebastian Padó
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escholarship
“I like work: I can sit and look at it for hours” - Type clash vs. plausibility in covert event recovery
A range of event-subcategorizing verbs can combine with entity-denoting nouns, like
begin the newspaper
. The interpretation of such …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Sebastian Padó
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