3 papers
cmp-lg1997
Learning Methods for Combining Linguistic Indicators to Classify Verbs
Eric V. Siegel
Fourteen linguistically-motivated numerical indicators are evaluated for their ability to categorize verbs as either states or events. The values for each indicator are computed au…
cmp-lg1996
Gathering Statistics to Aspectually Classify Sentences with a Genetic Algorithm
Eric V. Siegel, Kathleen R. McKeown
This paper presents a method for large corpus analysis to semantically classify an entire clause. In particular, we use cooccurrence statistics among similar clauses to determine t…
cmp-lg1994
Emergent Linguistic Rules from Inducing Decision Trees: Disambiguating Discourse Clue Words
Eric V. Siegel, Kathleen R. McKeown
We apply decision tree induction to the problem of discourse clue word sense disambiguation with a genetic algorithm. The automatic partitioning of the training set which is intrin…