Learning the countability of English nouns from corpus data

• Main Authors: Baldwin, Timothy, Bond, Francis
• 其他作者: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• 格式: Conference or Workshop Item
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2011
• 主題: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92279; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6825
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

This paper describes a method for learning the countability preferences of English nouns from raw text corpora. The method maps the corpus-attested lexico-syntactic properties of each noun onto a feature vector, and uses a suite of memory-based classifiers t...