... techniques for automatic extraction of ter- minology. In Judith Klavans and Philip Resnik, ed- itors, The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language, pages 49-66. ... correctly alternate (cause, deliver, hand, refuse, report and set for the dative alternation and cause, spoil, afford and prescribe for the benefactive), and 12 can appear in either frame ... objective of this paper is to investigate the ex- tent to which diathesis alternations are empirically attested in corpus data. Using the dative and bene- factive alternations as a test case we attempt...