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A supervised algorithm for verb disambiguation into VerbNet classes

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COLING '08: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1

Pages 9 - 16

Published: 18 August 2008 Publication History

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VerbNet (VN) is a major large-scale English verb lexicon. Mapping verb instances to their VN classes has been proven useful for several NLP tasks. However, verbs are polysemous with respect to their VN classes. We introduce a novel supervised learning model for mapping verb instances to VN classes, using rich syntactic features and class membership constraints. We evaluate the algorithm in both in-domain and corpus adaptation scenarios. In both cases, we use the manually tagged Semlink WSJ corpus as training data. For indomain (testing on Semlink WSJ data), we achieve 95.9% accuracy, 35.1% error reduction (ER) over a strong baseline. For adaptation, we test on the GENIA corpus and achieve 72.4% accuracy with 10.7% ER. This is the first large-scale experimentation with automatic algorithms for this task.

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Brown SDligach DPalmer MBos JPulman S(2011)VerbNet class assignment as a WSD taskProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics10.5555/2002669.2002679(85-94)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2011
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COLING '08: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1

August 2008

1178 pages

ISBN:9781905593446

Program Chairs:
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Hans Uszkoreit
Universitat des Saarlandes/DFKI

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Published: 18 August 2008

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Scarton CSun LKipper-Schuler KDuran MPalmer MKorhonen A(2014)Verb Clustering for Brazilian PortugueseProceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume 840310.1007/978-3-642-54906-9_3(25-39)Online publication date: 6-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-54906-9_3
Brown SDligach DPalmer MBos JPulman S(2011)VerbNet class assignment as a WSD taskProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics10.5555/2002669.2002679(85-94)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2002669.2002679
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1873781.1873900
Miyao YTsujii JKoehn PMihalcea R(2009)Supervised learning of a probabilistic lexicon of verb semantic classesProceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 3 - Volume 310.5555/1699648.1699679(1328-1337)Online publication date: 6-Aug-2009
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