Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP
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PROPOR '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
Merging PropBank, NomBank, TimeBank, Penn Discourse Treebank and Coreference
CorpusAnno '05 Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky
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COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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We explore some predicate-argument-structure phenomena in the context of the NomBank annotation project for English. Support verbs (They completed the acquisition), transparent nouns (His first batch of questions), prepositions (At Mary's request, John left the room) and other lexical items can link arguments of a noun N to positions outside of the NP headed by N. In these examples, They is an argument of acquisition, His is an argument of questions and John left the room is an argument of request. In most cases, these NP-external arguments are linked to a multiword expression (MWE) consisting of the noun predicate and (at least) one other item: a support verb, transparent noun, preposition, etc. This paper discusses properties of these constructions and how they interact. For example, in Disney made dozens of attempts to acquire Apple, Disney is an argument of acquire, due to linking properties of the support construction make + attempt and the quantificational noun dozens.