DocumentCode
2052078
Title
Mapping Verbal Argument Preferences to Deverbals
Author
Gurevich, Olga ; Waterman, Scott A.
Author_Institution
Microsoft / Powerset, San Francisco, CA, USA
fYear
2009
fDate
14-16 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
17
Lastpage
24
Abstract
We describe an experiment mapping semantic role preferences for transitive verbs to their deverbal nominal forms. The preferences are learned by data mining large parsed corpora. Preferences are modeled for deverbal/argument pairs, falling back to a model for the deverbal alone when sufficient data is not available. Errors in role assignment are reduced by 35%.
Keywords
computational linguistics; data mining; grammars; natural language processing; data mining; deverbal nominal forms; deverbal pairs; large parsed corpora; semantic role preference mapping; transitive verbs; verbal argument preference mapping; Data mining; Humans; Internet; Knowledge based systems; Natural language processing; Predictive models; Speech; Training data; USA Councils; Wikipedia; data mining; deverbal nouns; natural language processing; semantic role labeling;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Semantic Computing, 2009. ICSC '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4962-0
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-7695-3800-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSC.2009.88
Filename
5298531
Link To Document