... human), theyhad distinct types (e.g. duke, prince, bachelor). In the other half, entities were of the same type, thatis the NPs introducing them had the same nominalhead, but had distinguishing ... use the information contained in the SketchEngine database1(Kilgarriff, 2003), alargescale implementation of Lin’s theory basedon the BNC, which contains grammatical triples in the form of ... Deemter, 2005). The sim-ilarity of two arbitrary objects a and b is a function of the information gained by giving a joint descrip-tion of a and b in terms of what they have in com-mon, compared...