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Lexical Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

• Automatic classification of German light vs. heavy verbs
• Automatic classification of German particle verbs by aspectual features
• Modelling the compositionality of German particle verbs by an interaction of particle and verb classifications
• Disambiguation of separated German verb particles
• Higher-order co-occurrence models for German multi-word expressions
• Self-organising maps of German preposition senses

Descriptive Analyses and Computational Models of Association Norms

• Analyses of French verb associations
• Cross-lingual agreement of verb associations
• Modelling association strength by statistical similarity measures
• Bootstrapping co-occurrence patterns for stimulus-association relations
• Disambiguation of stimulus senses with respect to their associations
• Disambiguation of association chains