[Corpora-List] Selectional Preferences extracted from Semcor for WordNet 1.6 Synsets (v 1.0)

[David Martinez]

-- Apologies for cross-postings --


Dear list members,

we are pleased to announce the public release of version 1.0 of our
Selectional Preference Database for WordNet 1.6 Synsets. This resource
provides synset-to-synset weights for subject-verb and verb-object
relations. The source data to build this resource was the Semcor corpus,
and the WordNet hierarchy was employed to propagate the scores ([1],[2]).

This resource was first presented in CoNLL-2001 [1], and extended in [2].
It has been applied to WSD in both papers, and in [3] a study was
conducted to test their application to another language (Basque).

The Selectional Preferences can be downloaded from the following url:
http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/resources/selprefs

Comments and feedback are most welcome.

Best,

Eneko Agirre
David Martinez

Ixa research group
http://ixa.si.ehu.es

References

[1] Agirre E., Martínez D. 2001.
Learning class-to-class selectional preferences.
Proceedings of the Workshop "Computational Natural Language Learning"
(CoNLL-2001). In conjunction with ACL'2001/EACL'2001. Toulouse, France.

[2] Agirre E., Martínez D. 2002.
Integrating Selectional Preferences in WordNet.
Proceedings of First International WordNet Conference. Mysore (India).
2002.

[3] Agirre E., Aldezabal I., Pociello E. 2003.
A pilot study of English Selectional Preferences and their Cross-Lingual
Compatibility with Basque.
International Conference on Text Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2003, Czech
Republic)