As an example the dependency relation (nsub;gave 2 ;I 1 ) could be transferred to <gave 2 ,(nsub;@;I 1 )> and <I 1 ,(nsub;gave 2 ;@)>. This representation scheme is more generic then the schemes introduced in (Lin, 1998;<cite> Curran, 2002)</cite> , as it allows to characterise pairs by several holes, which could be used to learn analogies, cf.