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Please reference the following document in any description of
applications based on VerbNet 2.3:
Karin Kipper, Anna Korhonen, Neville Ryant, and Martha Palmer.
Extensive Classifications of English verbs.
Proceedings of the 12th EURALEX International Congress. Turin, Italy.
September, 2006.
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ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE
OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT
INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR
OTHER RIGHTS.
The name of University of Colorado or CU may not be used in
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any associated documentation shall at all times remain with
University of Colorado and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.
Please reference the following document(s) in any description of
applications based on VerbNet 3.0 (or 3.X):
Karin Kipper, Anna Korhonen, Neville Ryant, Martha Palmer,
A Large-scale Classification of English Verbs,
Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, 42(1), pp. 21-40,
Springer Netherland, 2008.
and/or
Karin Kipper Schuler, Anna Korhonen, Susan W. Brown,
VerbNet overview, extensions, mappings and apps, Tutorial, NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, Colorado.