PropBank annotation of multilingual light verb constructions

Authors:
Jena D. Hwang;Archna Bhatia;Clare Bonial;Aous Mansouri;Ashwini Vaidya;Nianwen Xue;Martha Palmer
Affiliations:
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO;Brandeis University, Waltham, MA;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Venue:
LAW IV '10 Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we have addressed the task of PropBank annotation of light verb constructions, which like multi-word expressions pose special problems. To arrive at a solution, we have evaluated 3 different possible methods of annotation. The final method involves three passes: (1) manual identification of a light verb construction, (2) annotation based on the light verb construction's Frame File, and (3) a deterministic merging of the first two passes. We also discuss how in various languages the light verb constructions are identified and can be distinguished from the non-light verb word groupings.