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"abstract": "We present a corpus-based study of methods that have been proposed in the linguistics literature for selecting the semantically unmarked term out of a pair of antonymous adjectives. Solutions to this problem are applicable to the more general task of selecting the positive term from the pair. Using automatically collected data, the accuracy and applicability of each method is quantified, and a statistical analysis of the significance of the results is performed. We show that some simple methods are indeed good indicators for the answer to the problem while other proposed methods fail to perform better than would be attributable to chance. In addition, one of the simplest methods, text frequency, dominates all others. We also apply two generic statistical learning methods for combining the indications of the individual methods, and compare their performance to the simple methods. The most sophisticated complex learning method offers a small, but statistically significant, improvement over the original tests.",
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"text": "The concept of markedness originated in the work of Prague School linguists (Jakobson, 1984a) and refers to relationships between two complementary or antonymous terms which can be distinguished by the presence or absence of a feature (+A versus --A). Such an opposition can occur at various linguistic levels. For example, a markedness contrast can arise at the morphology level, when one of the two words is derived from the other and therefore contains an explicit formal marker such as a prefix; e.g., profitable-unprofitable. Markedness contrasts also appear at the semantic level in many pairs of gradable antonymous adjectives, especially scalar ones (Levinson, 1983) , such as tall-short. The marked and unmarked elements of such pairs function in different ways. The unmarked adjective (e.g., tall) can be used in how-questions to refer to the property described by both adjectives in the pair (e.g., height), but without any implication about the modified item relative to the norm for the property. For example, the question How tall is Jack? can be answered equally well by four or seven feet. In contrast, the marked element of the opposition cannot be used generically; when used in a how-question, it implies a presupposition of the speaker regarding the relative position of the modified item on the adjectival scale. Thus, the corresponding question using the marked term of the opposition (How short is Jack?)",
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"text": "conveys an implication on the part of the speaker that Jack is indeed short; the distinguishing feature A expresses this presupposition. While markedness has been described in terms of a distinguishing feature A, its definition does not specify the type of this feature. Consequently, several different types of features have been employed, which has led into some confusion about the meaning of the term markedness. Following Lyons (1977) , we distinguish between formal markedness where the opposition occurs at the morphology level (i.e., one of the two terms is derived from the other through inflection or affixation) and semantic markedness where the opposition occurs at the semantic level as in the example above. When two antonymous terms are also morphologically related, the formally unmarked term is usually also the semantically unmarked one (for example, clear-unclear). However, this correlation is not universal; consider the examples unbiased-biased and independent-dependent.",
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"text": "Various tests for determining markedness in general have been proposed by linguists (see Section 3). However, although potentially automatic versions of some of these have been successfully applied to the problem at the phonology level Greenberg, 1966) , little work has been done on the empirical validation or the automatic application of those tests at higher levels (but see (Ku~era, 1982) for an empirical analysis of a proposed markedness test at the syntactic level; some more narrowly focused empirical work has also been done on markedness in second language acquisition). In this paper we analyze the performance of several linguistic tests for the selection of the semantically unmarked term out of a pair of gradable antonymous adjectives. We describe a system that automatically extracts the relevant data for these tests from text corpora and corpora-based databases, and use this system to measure the applicability and accuracy of each method. We apply statistical tests to determine the significance of the results, and then discuss the performance of complex predictors that combine the answers of the linguistic tests according to two general statistical learning methods, decision trees and loglinear regression models.",
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"text": "The goal of our work is twofold: First, we are interested in providing hard, quantitative evidence on the performance of markedness tests already proposed in the linguistics literature. Such tests are based on intuitive observations and/or particular theories of semantics, but their accuracy has not been measured on actual data. The results of our analysis can be used to substantiate theories which are compatible with the empirical evidence, and thus offer insight into the complex linguistic phenomenon of antonymy.",
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"text": "The second purpose of our work is practical applications. The semantically unmarked term is almost always the positive term of the opposition (Boucher and Osgood, 1969) ; e.g., high is positive, while low is negative. Therefore, an automatic method for determining markedness values can also be used to determine the polarity of antonyms. The work reported in this paper helps clarify which types of data and tests are useful for such a method and which are not.",
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"text": "The need for an automatic corpus-based method for the identification of markedness becomes apparent when we consider the high number of adjectives in unrestricted text and the domain-dependence of markedness values. In the MRC Psycholinguistic Database (Coltheart, 1981) , a large machinereadable annotated word list, 25,547 of the 150,837 entries (16.94%) are classified as adjectives, not including past participles; if we only consider regularly used grammatical categories for each word, the percentage of adjectives rises to 22.97%. For comparison, nouns (the largest class) account for 51.28% and 57.47% of the words under the two criteria. In addition, while adjectives tend to have prevalent markedness and polarity values in the language at large, frequently these values are negated in specific domains or contexts. For example, healthy is in most contexts the unmarked member of the opposition healthy:sick; but in a hospital setting, sickness rather than health is expected, so sick becomes the unmarked term. The methods we describe are based on the form of the words and their overall statistical properties, and thus cannot predict specific occur-fences of markedness reversals. But they can predict the prevalent markedness value for each adjective in a given domain, something which is impractical to do by hand separately for each domain.",
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"text": "Unmarked terms should exhibit higher differentiation with more subdistinetions (Jakobson, 1984b ) (e.g., the present tense (unmarked) appears in a greater variety of forms than the past), or, equivalently, the marked term should lack some subcategories (Greenberg, 1966) . The first of the above tests compares the text frequencies of the two words, which are clearly measurable and easily retrievable from a corpus. We use the one-million word Brown corpus of written American English (Ku~era and Francis, 1967) for this purpose. The mapping of the remaining tests to quantifiable variables is not as immediate. We use the length of a word in characters, which is a reasonable indirect index of morphological complexity, for tests 2and 3. This indicator is exact for the case of test (2), since the formally marked word is derived from the unmarked one through the addition of an affix (which for adjectives is always a prefix). The number of syllables in a word is another reasonable indicator of morphological complexity that we consider, although it is much harder to compute automatically than word length.",
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