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The selectional preferences of verbal predicates are an importantcomponent of a computational lexicon. They have frequently been citedas being useful for WSD, alongside other sources ofknowledge. We evaluate automatically acquired selectional preferenceson the level playing field provided by SENSEVAL to examine towhat extent they help in WSD.
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Carroll, J., McCarthy, D. Word Sense Disambiguation Using Automatically Acquired Verbal Preferences. Computers and the Humanities 34, 109–114 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002415205081
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