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Introduction Predicate argument selectional preference1 is the notion that the roles, or argument positions, of a given predicate tend to prefer some arguments to others. Automatically inferring these preferences has been a topic of interest within the computational linguistics community since the early 1990’s, with Resnik [3] giving examples such as: Mary drank some {wine, gasoline, pencils, sadness}, where the provided nouns in the syntactic object position of the verb drink are of

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