Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs
<|reference_start|>Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs: Some verbs have a particular kind of binary ambiguity: they can carry their normal, full meaning, or they can be merely acting as a prop for the nominal object. It has been suggested that there is a detectable pattern in the relationship between a verb acting as a prop (a \term{support verb}) and the noun it supports.   The task this paper undertakes is to develop a model which identifies the support verb for a particular noun, and by extension, when nouns are enumerated, a model which disambiguates a verb with respect to its support status. The paper sets up a basic model as a standard for comparison; it then proposes a more complex model, and gives some results to support the model's validity, comparing it with other similar approaches.<|reference_end|>
@article{dras1996death,
    title={Death and Lightness: Using a Demographic Model to Find Support Verbs},
    author={Mark Dras and Mike Johnson (Microsoft Institute and Dept of Computing,
  Macquarie University)},
    journal={CSNLP-96, Sept. 2-4, Dublin, Ireland},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9610001},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}