2 Following<cite> Padó and Lapata (2007)</cite> , we only consider co-occurrences where two target words are connected by certain dependency paths, namely: the top 30 most frequent preposition-mediated noun-to-noun paths (soldier+with+gun), the top 50 transitive-verbmediated noun-to-noun paths (soldier+use+gun), the top 30 direct or preposition-mediated verbnoun paths (kill+obj+victim, kill+in+school), and the modifying and predicative adjective-to-noun paths.