@InProceedings{medic-vsnajder-pado:2017:starSEM,
  author    = {Medi\'{c}, Zoran  and  \v{S}najder, Jan  and  Pad\'{o}, Sebastian},
  title     = {Does Free Word Order Hurt? Assessing the Practical Lexical Function Model for Croatian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {115--120},
  abstract  = {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.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S17-1014}
}