Abstract
At least in the realm of fast parsing, the masscount distinction has led the life of a wallflower. We argue in this paper that this should not be so. In particular, we argue, both theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics can gain by a corpus-based investigation of this distinction: Computational linguists get more accurate parses; the knowledge extracted from these parses becomes more reliable; theoretical linguists are presented with new data in a field that has been intensely discussed and yet remains in a state that is not satisfactory from a practical point of view.- Anthology ID:
- L06-1458
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2006
- Address:
- Genoa, Italy
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/736_pdf.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Michael Schiehlen and Kristina Spranger. 2006. The Mass-Count Distinction: Acquisition and Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- The Mass-Count Distinction: Acquisition and Disambiguation (Schiehlen & Spranger, LREC 2006)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/736_pdf.pdf