A joint model of implicit arguments for nominal predicates

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Gerber;Joyce Y. Chai;Robert Bart

  • Affiliations:
  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan;Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan;University of Washington Seattle, Washington

  • Venue:
  • RELMS '11 Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Many prior studies have investigated the recovery of semantic arguments for nominal predicates. The models in many of these studies have assumed that arguments are independent of each other. This assumption simplifies the computational modeling of semantic arguments, but it ignores the joint nature of natural language. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the joint modeling of implicit arguments for nominal predicates. The joint model uses propositional knowledge extracted from millions of Internet webpages to help guide prediction.