Evaluating the Relationships Instantiated by Semantic Associates of Verbs
Hugo Mercier, Jean-Bapiste Van der Henst · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2005
This work is concerned with an investigation of semantic associations.We performed an elicitation task where native speakers were asked to spontaneously list semantic associations for German verbs.The elicited conceptual knowledge was then given ontological structure based on codes from the psycholinguistic taxonomy GermaNet as well as linguistic functions obtained from statistical corpus parses.The investigation is directed towards discovering and specifying the structural and conceptual types of verb associations, stemming from an interest in better characterizing semantic associates.