Event Types in the Mind and in the Corpus

Alessandra Zarcone, Alessandro Lenci
November, 2010
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Abstract

Event types (ET) have received considerable attention in formal semantics, but their importance in experimental linguistics has developed only recently. The aim of this work is to compare the performance of human annotators and corpus-based models in ET classification of Italian verbs

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Conference paper
Publication
Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs - The Identification and Representation of Verb Features (Verb 2010)
annotation aspectual features crowdsourcing lexical aspect lexical meaning in context Maximum Enthropy Self-Organizing Maps
Alessandra Zarcone
Alessandra Zarcone
Professor of Language Technologies and Cognitive Assistants

Computational linguist with a background in NLP and in psycholinguistics, working on AI, NLP and human-machine interaction.