The encoding of lexical implications in VerbNet

Citation

Zaenen, A.; Condoravdi, C.; Bobrow, D. G. The encoding of lexical implications in VerbNet . Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008); 2008 May 28-30; Marrakech, Morocco.

Abstract

This paper describes an experience with using the information contained in VerbNet to obtain change of location inferences. We show that the information is available but not encoded in a consistent enough form to be optimally useful.

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