An abstract schema for representing semantic roles and modelling the syntax-semantics interface

  • Authors:
  • Voula Gotsoulia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Essex

  • Venue:
  • IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to semantic role annotation implementing an entailment-based view of the concept of semantic role. I propose to represent arguments of predicates with grammatically relevant primitive properties entailed by the semantics of predicates. Such meaning components generalise over a range of semantic relations which humans tend to express systematically through language. In a preliminary study, I show that we can model linguistic knowledge at a general, principled syntax-semantics interface by incorporating a layer of skeletal, entailment-based representation of word meaning in large-scale corpus annotation.