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%T Does Free Word Order Hurt? Assessing the Practical Lexical Function Model for Croatian
%A Medić, Zoran
%A Šnajder, Jan
%A Padó, Sebastian
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Herbelot, Aurélie
%Y Màrquez, Lluís
%S Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
%D 2017
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vancouver, Canada
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%X The Practical Lexical Function (PLF) model is a model of computational distributional semantics that attempts to strike a balance between expressivity and learnability in predicting phrase meaning and shows competitive results. We investigate how well the PLF carries over to free word order languages, given that it builds on observations of predicate-argument combinations that are harder to recover in free word order languages. We evaluate variants of the PLF for Croatian, using a new lexical substitution dataset. We find that the PLF works about as well for Croatian as for English, but demonstrate that its strength lies in modeling verbs, and that the free word order affects the less robust PLF variant.
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[Does Free Word Order Hurt? Assessing the Practical Lexical Function Model for Croatian](https://aclanthology.org/S17-1014) (Medić et al., *SEM 2017)

• Does Free Word Order Hurt? Assessing the Practical Lexical Function Model for Croatian (Medić et al., *SEM 2017)

ACL

• Zoran Medić, Jan Šnajder, and Sebastian Padó. 2017. Does Free Word Order Hurt? Assessing the Practical Lexical Function Model for Croatian. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), pages 115–120, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.