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    Extending corpus-based identification of light verb constructions using a supervised learning framework
    (2005-08-19T02:32:51Z) TAN, Yee Fan; KAN, Min-Yen; CUI, Hang
    Light verb constructions (LVC) such as "make a call" and "give a presentation" pose challenges for natural language processing and understanding. We propose corpus-based methods to automatically identify LVCs. We extend existing corpus-based measures for identifying LVCs among verb-object pairs, using new features that use mutual information and assess the influence of other words in the context of a candidate verb-object pair, such as nouns and prepositions. To our knowledge, our work is the first to incorporate both existing and new LVC features into a unified machine learning approach. We experimentally demonstrate the superior performance of our framework and the effectiveness of the newlyproposed features.