Statistical Measures of the Semi-Productivity of Light Verb Constructions

By Suzanne Stevenson, Afsaneh Fazly, Ryan North. 2004

82 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We propose a statistical measure for the degree of acceptability of light verb constructions, such as take a walk, based on their linguistic properties. Our measure shows good correlations with human ratings on unseen test data. Moreover, we find that our measure correlates more strongly when the potential complements of the construction (such as walk, stroll, or run) are separated into semantically similar classes. Our analysis demonstrates the systematic nature of the semi-productivity of these constructions.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction (2011, unknown): “An LVC is a multi-word expression composed of a verb and a noun, with the noun carrying the semantic content of the predicate (Grefenstette and Teufel, 1995; Stevenson et al., 2004; Allerton, 2002).”