Abstract Similarity, which plays a key role in fields like cognitive science, psycholinguistics and natural language processing, is a broad and multifaceted concept. In this work we analyse how two approaches that belong to different perspectives, the corpus view and the psycholinguistic view, articulate similarity between verb senses in Spanish. Specifically, we compare the similarity between verb senses based on their argument structure, which is captured through semantic roles, with their similarity defined by word associations. We address the question of whether verb argument structure, which reflects the expression of the events, and word associations, which are related to the speakers’ organization of the mental lexicon, shape similarity between verbs in a congruent manner, a topic which has not been explored previously. While we find significant correlations between verb sense similarities obtained from these two approaches, our findings also highlight some discrepancies between them and the importance of the degree of abstraction of the corpus annotation and psycholinguistic representations.

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动词相似度：比较语料库和心理语言数据

摘要相似性是一个广泛而多样的概念，它在认知科学，心理语言学和自然语言处理等领域中发挥着关键作用。在这项工作中，我们分析了语料库视图和心理语言学视图这两种属于不同观点的方法如何阐明西班牙语中动词义之间的相似性。具体而言，我们根据动词义之间的自变量结构（通过语义角色捕获）比较它们之间的相似度，并通过单词关联定义它们的相似度。我们解决一个问题，即反映事件表达的动词自变量结构和与说话者心理词典的组织有关的词联想是否以一致的方式塑造了动词之间的相似性，这是一个尚未成为主题的问题。以前曾探讨过。