Shaw and Hatzivassiloglou ( 1999 ) propose to generalize the direct evidence method so that it can apply to unseen pairs of adjectives by computing the transitive closure of the ordering relation .
ordering among premodifiers
James Shaw Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
If neither order appears in the training data , then neither a b nor b a and an order must be randomly assigned . Shaw and Hatzivassiloglou ( 1999 ) propose to generalize the direct evidence method so that it can apply to unseen pairs of adjectives by computing the transitive closure of the ordering relation . That is , if a c and c b , we can conclude that a b. To take an example from the BNC , the adjectives large and green never occur together in the training data , and so would be assigned a random order by the direct evidence method .
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