Previous work on this task (Banko et al., 2007), as well as on its generalization, called unsupervised semantic parsing (Poon and Domingos, 2009;Titov and Klementiev, 2011), groups patterns between entity pairs (e.g., wrote a review, wrote a critique and reviewed) and uses these clusters as relations.
this is not surprising as the argument independence assumption is very strong, and the general motivation we provided in Section 2 does not really apply to the selectional preference model.