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This paper describes an experimental approach to derive verb thematic roles by corpora. A formal definition of a CG-based representation language is discussed. Hence, much of the lexical information on verb semantics is entrusted to conceptual relations. Aim of this kind of acquisition is to provide source data for automatic verb categorization. In order to select a domain-appropriate set of conceptual relations, it is defined a corpus-dependent statistical measure of the expressive power of conceptual relations in discriminating verb meanings.
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Basili, R., Pazienza, M.T. (1993). Inducing a CG representation for basic-level categorization of verbs. In: Mineau, G.W., Moulin, B., Sowa, J.F. (eds) Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation. ICCS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56979-0_9
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