TITLE: 		A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BETH LEVIN'S ENGLISH VERB
		CLASS ALTERNATIONS AND WORDNET'S SENSES FOR THE VERB 
		CLASSES HIT, TOUCH, BREAK AND CUT
AUTHOR:		Wendy M. Zickus
COMMENTS:	From Proceedings of The Post-Coling94 International
		Workshop on Directions of Lexical Research

ABSTRACT:
Beth Levin's work on verb classes and alternations for the English
language [Levin 1993] has created a means of 1) separating verbs into
different classes based on their alternations and 2) generalizing
syntactic patterns for these differing classes. WordNet [Miller,
Beckwith, Fellbaum, Gross, Miller 1993] is an on-line
dictionary/thesaurus developed by a group of psycholinguists at
Princeton University which has the ability to distinguish the
different senses of words and produce synonym sets and sentence
glosses for these differing senses. By doing a comparative analysis of
the two different works, we will be able to 1) see if WordNet's output
is supportive of Levin's work, especially in her verb class
distinctions and 2) test WordNet's accuracy in distinguishing a verb's
different senses.