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Characteristics of Most Frequent Spanish Verb-Noun Combinations

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We study most frequent Spanish verb-noun combinations retrieved from the Spanish Web Corpus. We present the statistics of these combinations and analyze the degree of cohesiveness of their components. For the verb-noun combinations which turned out to be collocations, we determined their semantics in the form of lexical functions. We also observed what word senses are most typical for polysemous words in the verb-noun combinations under study and determined the level of generalization which characterizes the semantics of words in the combinations, that is, at what level of the hyperonymy-hyponymy tree they are located. The data collected by us can be used in various applications of natural language processing, especially, in predictive models in which most frequent cases are taken into account.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Vojtěch Kovář for providing us with the list of most frequent verb-noun pairs from the Spanish Web Corpus of the Sketch Engine, www.sketchengine.co.uk. The authors also appreciate the support of Mexican Government which made it possible to complete this work: SNI-CONACYT, BEIFI-IPN, SIP-IPN: grants 20162064, 20161958, and 20162204, and the EDI Program. We give special thanks to Dr. Noé Alejandro Castro-Sánchez for collecting the statistics of verb senses in Diccionario de la lengua española (DRAE).

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    Olga Kolesnikova

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    Alexander Gelbukh

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Kolesnikova, O., Gelbukh, A. (2017). Characteristics of Most Frequent Spanish Verb-Noun Combinations. In: Sidorov, G., Herrera-Alcántara, O. (eds) Advances in Computational Intelligence. MICAI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10061. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62434-1_3

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