Abstract

This article is aimed at quantifying the disambiguation performance of automatically acquired selectional preferences in regard to nouns, verbs, and adjectives with respect to a standard test corpus and evaluation setup (SENSEVAL-2) and to identify strengths and weaknesses. Although there is clearly a limit to coverage using preferences alone, because preferences are acquired only with respect to speci#c grammatical roles, we show that when dealing with running text, rather than isolated examples, coverage can be increased at little cost in accuracy by using the one-sense-per-discourse heuristic

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