Semantic Annotation of Verb Arguments in Shallow Parsed Polish Sentences by Means of the EM Selection Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Elżbieta Hajnicz

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Aspects of Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The ultimate goal of our work is to extend a syntactic valence dictionary of Polish verbs by adding some semantic information to verb arguments. This information consists of wordnet semantic categories of words. In order to provide syntactic slots of dictionary entries with lists of appropriate semantic categories of corresponding nouns, we need a treebank with all nouns semantically annotated with such categories, as both syntactic (i.e., argument structure) and semantic information is required.We aim here at Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). To solve this task for our specific application, we adapt EM selection algorithm elaborated for extraction of syntactic valence frames.In the paper, the whole process of data processing is shown. The main focus is put on WSD task. Three versions of the EM selection algorithm are presented: the original one and its two modifications. Finally, the evaluation and comparison of the algorithms is performed.