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Antonymy and Contrast Relations
Jennifer Spenader Gert Stulp
j.spenader@ai.rug.nl g.stulp@student.rug.nl
Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen
Abstract
In this paper we report on experiments to determine if antonymy is a good predictor
of contrast, using 124 texts from the British National Corpus and the antonymy
relations for adjectives recognized by WordNet. Further, we considered whether
antonyms are key arguments in the inferences that license contrast. We looked at
the frequency of both indirect and direct antonym pairs in contrastive sentences
marked with but and sentences with antonym pairs without but. Antonyms and but
co-occurred in only 1% of the 218,017 sentences studied. However, in 81% of but
marked sentences with true antonyms pairs, the feature the antonyms described
was a source of the contrast. In the non- but marked sentences, antonymy alone
was a poor predictor, licensing a contrast in only 15% of the cases. We also found
that direct antonyms are better predictors of contrast than indirect antonyms, and
certain antonym pairs, like same-different, are consistently good predictors. These
results could be used to find unmarked contrast relations with antonyms alone.
1 Introduction
contrast is considered a major category in information organization, ev-
idenced by its inclusion in almost all major taxonomies of rhetorical rela-
tions (e.g. Hobbs 1990, Martin 1992, Mann and Thompson 1988, Asher and
Lascarides 2003). Since Lakoff (1971), two types of contrast are generally
recognized, denial of expectation (1) and semantic opposition (2):
(1) It’s raining but I’m taking an umbrella
(2) John is tall but Bill is short. (Lakoff 1971: 133)
A common analysis for (1) is that the first conjunct implies something
that an implication of the second conjunct co
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