This paper explores the determinants of adjective-noun plausibility by using correlation analysis to compare judgements elicited from human subjects with five corpus-based variables :
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co-occurrence frequency
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of the
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adjective-noun pair
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,
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noun frequency
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,
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conditional probability
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of the
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noun
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given the
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adjective
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, the
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log-likelihood ratio
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, and
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Resnik 's ( 1993 ) selectional association measure
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.
#30012This paper explores the determinants of adjective-noun plausibility by using correlation analysis to compare judgements elicited from human subjects with five corpus-based variables:co-occurrence frequency of the adjective-noun pair, noun frequency, conditional probability of the noun given the adjective, the log-likelihood ratio, and Resnik's (1993) selectional association measure.