# This file contains the top 400 candidates ranked according to # the score given by the system described in: # Without a `doubt'? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing operators. # Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, and Richard Ducott. # Proceedings of the NAACL, pp 137--145, 2009 # http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Without_a_doubt_Unsupervised_discovery_of_downward-entailing_operators.html # 1 denies 0.877834934992 2 lacking 0.836908939719 3 denied 0.822273327906 4 unaware 0.773529341613 5 longest 0.754595638944 6 hardly 0.744700299951 7 barring 0.741234752503 8 deny 0.723327621563 9 worse 0.721083861791 10 nobody 0.712274121337 11 opposes 0.695268457626 12 absence 0.674485769185 13 highest 0.669810944888 14 prohibits 0.660767440729 15 avoided 0.649365867497 16 avoids 0.646242927691 17 prevents 0.643639810543 18 strongest 0.64206440908 19 rejects 0.636321251896 20 absent 0.633714043233 21 doubted 0.628026179696 22 barred 0.625727199431 23 forestall 0.623471128535 24 lacks 0.60331337538 25 fastest 0.59988551863 26 oppose 0.588375440325 27 if 0.582610080519 28 refuses 0.577168761739 29 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