... Computational LinguisticsA Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional PreferencesKatrin ErkUniversity of Texas at Austinkatrin.erk@mail.utexas.eduAbstractWe propose a new, simple model for the ... and Li, 1993),others EM-based clustering (Rooth et al., 1999).In this paper we propose a new, simple modelfor selectional preference induction that usescorpus-based semantic similarity metrics, ... general-ization from seen headwords to other, similarwords. The similarity-based model is particu-larly simple and easy to compute, and seems notvery sensitive to parameters. Like the EM-basedclustering...