Visual semantics and ontology of eventive verbs

Authors:
Minhua Ma;Paul Mc Kevitt
Affiliations:
School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster, Derry/Londonderry;School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster, Derry/Londonderry
Venue:
IJCNLP'04 Proceedings of the First international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Various English verb classifications have been analyzed in terms of their syntactic and semantic properties, and conceptual components, such as syntactic valency, lexical semantics, and semantic/syntactic correlations. Here the visual semantics of verbs, particularly their visual roles, somatotopic effectors, and level-of-detail, is studied. We introduce the notion of visual valency and use it as a primary criterion to recategorize eventive verbs for language visualization (animation) in our intelligent multimodal storytelling system, CONFUCIUS. The visual valency approach is a framework for modelling deeper semantics of verbs. In our ontological system we consider both language and visual modalities since CONFUCIUS is a multimodal system.