- Abstract:
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Verbs such as enjoy in the student enjoyed the book exhibit logical metonymy: enjoy is interpreted as enjoy reading. Theoretical work (Pustejovsky 1991, 1995) predicts that this interpretation can be influenced by intra-sentential context, e.g., by the subject of enjoy. In this article, we test this prediction using a completion experiment and find that the interpretation of a metonymic verb is influenced by the semantic role of its subject. We present a Bayesian model that accounts for the interpretation of logical metonymy and achieves a good fit on our experimental data. We show that the parameters of the model can be estimated from completion data or from corpus data.
- Links To Paper
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- Bibtex format
- @Article{EDI-INF-RR-0309,
- author = {
Mirella Lapata
and Frank Keller
and Christoph Scheepers
},
- title = {Intra-sentential Context Effects on the Interpretation of Logical Metonymy},
- journal = {Cognitive Science},
- publisher = {LEA},
- year = 2003,
- month = {Jul},
- volume = {27(4)},
- pages = {649-668},
- doi = {10.1016/S0364-0213(03)00035-1},
- url = {http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/papers/cogsci_journal03.pdf},
- }
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