TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility"

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. Murphy (1990) has shown that typical adjectivenoun phrases (., salty olives) are easier to interpret in comparison to atypical ones (., sweet olives). . | Proceedings of EACL 99 Determinants of Adjective-Noun Plausibility Maria Lapata and Scott McDonald and Frank Keller School of Cognitive Science Division of Informatics University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW UK mlap scottm keller @ Abstract 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 coưelation is obtained with the co-occuưence frequency which points to the strongly lexicalist and collocational nature of adjective-noun combinations. 1 Introduction Research on linguistic plausibility has focused mainly on the effects of argument plausibility during the processing of locally ambiguous sentences. Psycholinguists have investigated whether the plausibility of the direct object affects reading times for sentences like 1 . Here argument plausibility refers to pragmatic plausibility or local semantic fit Holmes et al. 1989 and judgements of plausibility are typically obtained by asking subjects to rate sentence fragments containing verb-argument combinations as an example consider the bracketed parts of the sentences in 1 . Such experiments typically use an ordinal scale for plausibility . from 1 to 7 . 1 a. The senior senator regretted the decision had ever been made public. b. The senior senator regretted the reporter had ever seen the report. The majority of research has focussed on investigating the effect of rated plausibility for verb-object combinations in human sentence processing Garnsey et al. 1997 Pickering and Traxler 1998 . However plausibility effects have also been observed for adjectivenoun combinations in a head-modifier relationship. Murphy 1990 has shown that typical .

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