Flexible, Corpus-Based Modelling of Human Plausibility Judgements

In this paper, we consider the computational modelling of human plausibility judgements for verb-relation-argument triples, a task equivalent to the computation of selectional preferences. Such models have applications both in psycholinguistics and in computational linguistics. By extending a recent model, we obtain a completely corpus-driven model for this task which achieves significant correlations with human judgements. It rivals or exceeds deeper, resource-driven models while exhibiting higher coverage. Moreover, we show that our model can be combined with deeper models to obtain better predictions than from either model alone.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Sebastian Padó, Ulrike Padó, Katrin Erk
• Keywords: EMNLP 2007, Human Plausibility Judgements, Natural Language Processing, Selectional Preferences, Such Models