Abstract
We present a study that investigates the factors that determine what makes a good lexi cal substitution. We begin by observing that there is a correlation between the corpus frequency of words and the number of WordNet senses they have, and hypothesise that readers might prefer common, but ambiguous terms over less ambiguous but less common words. In this paper we identify four properties of a word that determine whether it is a suit able substitution in a given context, and ask volunteers to rank their preferences between two common but ambiguous lexical substitutions, and two uncommon but also unambiguous ones. Preliminary results suggest a slight preference towards the unambiguous.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 176-180 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2011 |
Event | 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation - Nancy, France Duration: 28 Sept 2011 → 30 Sept 2011 |
Conference
Conference | 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation |
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Country/Territory | France |
City | Nancy |
Period | 28/09/11 → 30/09/11 |