{"id":44,"date":"2009-11-09T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-11-15T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:10:32","slug":"selectional-constraints-an-information-theoretic-model-and-its-computational-realization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2009\/11\/09\/selectional-constraints-an-information-theoretic-model-and-its-computational-realization\/","title":{"rendered":"Selectional Constraints: an Information-theoretic Model and its Computational Realization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selectional Constraints: an Information-theoretic Model and its Computational Realization &#8211; Resnik (1996)<\/p>\n<p>Resnik proposes an information-theoretic model of verb selection restriction.\u00a0 Uses WordNet to model noun conceptual classes and then shows how the Relative Entropy between the noun class and the noun class given the verb is a good measure of how specific a selectional constraint the verb has.\u00a0 Shows that this measure of selectional restriction correlates with human judgments of plausibility and can predict which verbs undergo inferred object alternations and when an speaker may choose to use an inferred object construction.\u00a0 Overall the strength of the correlations with human judgments were weaker than expected.\u00a0 Resnik argues that this may be due to the minimal nature of the model and the fact that it does not distinguish between verb or noun senses.\u00a0 He argues that this is an advantage in corresponding to the information available to the language learner.\u00a0 It could indicate that sense disambiguation happens early in language learning and is not reliant on selectional constraints.\u00a0 In all likelihood both selectional constraint information and sense disambiguation are learned together and reinforce each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selectional Constraints: an Information-theoretic Model and its Computational Realization &#8211; Resnik (1996) Resnik proposes an information-theoretic model of verb selection restriction.\u00a0 Uses WordNet to model noun conceptual classes and then shows how the Relative Entropy between the noun class and the noun class given the verb is a good measure of how specific a selectional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}