@inproceedings{Tsang5,
  author = "Vivian Tsang and Suzanne Stevenson",
  title = "Automatic verb classification using multilingual resources",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop, 
               39th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
  address = "Toulouse, France",
  month = "July",
  year = "2001",
  pages = "30--37",
  abstract = "We propose the use of multilingual corpora in the automatic
              classification of verbs.  We extend the work of Merlo and Stevenson
              (2001), in which statistics on simple syntactic features extracted
              from textual corpora were used to train an automatic classifier for
              three lexical semantic classes of English verbs.  We hypothesize that
              some lexical semantic features that are difficult to detect
              superficially in English may manifest themselves as easily
              extractable surface syntactic features in another language.  Our
              experimental results combining English and Chinese features show that
              a small bilingual corpus may provide a useful alternative to using a
              large monolingual corpus for verb classification.",
  download = "http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Tsang+Stevenson-2001.pdf"
}