Using an ontology to determine English countability

• Main Authors: Bond, Francis, Caitlin, Vatikiotis-Bateson
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92258; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6817
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we show to what degree the countability of English nouns is predictable from their semantics. We found that at 78% of nouns' countability could be predicted using an ontology of 2,710 nodes. We also show how this...