{"pk":26805,"title":"Semantic Typology and Parallel Corpora: Something about Indefinite Pronouns","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Patterns of crosslinguistic variation in the expression of wordmeaning are informative about semantic organization, but mostmethods to study this are labor intensive and obscure the gra-dient nature of concepts. We propose an automatic method forextracting crosslinguistic co-categorization patterns from par-allel texts, and explore the properties of the data as a potentialsource for automatically creating semantic representations forcognitive modeling. We focus on indefinite pronouns, com-paring our findings against a study based on secondary sources(Haspelmath 1997). We show that using automatic methods onparallel texts contributes to more cognitively-plausible seman-tic representations for a domain.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"semantic typology; semantic representation; par-allel corpora"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z59z44h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Barend","middle_name":" ","last_name":"Beekhuizen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Julia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Watson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Suzanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stevenson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26805/galley/16441/download/"}]}