Utilising the LDOCE grammar codes
Computational lexicography for natural language processing
C4.5: programs for machine learning
C4.5: programs for machine learning
Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic
Computational Linguistics
Issues in text-based lexicon acquisition
Corpus processing for lexical acquisition
A context driven conceptual clustering method for verb classification
Corpus processing for lexical acquisition
Acquiring predicate-argument mapping information from multilingual texts
Corpus processing for lexical acquisition
Linguistic indicators for language understanding: using machine learning methods to combine corpus-based indicators for aspectual classification of clauses
From grammar to lexicon: unsupervised learning of lexical syntax
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
A generative perspective on verb alternations
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on natural language generation
Supertagging: an approach to almost parsing
Computational Linguistics
Using semantic preferences to identify verbal participation in role switching alternations
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
The acquisition of lexical knowledge from combined machine-readable dictionary sources
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
Automatic extraction of subcategorization from corpora
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Three generative, lexicalised models for statistical parsing
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Detecting verbal participation in diathesis alternations
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
Investigating regular sense extensions based on intersective Levin classes
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Role of verbs in document analysis
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Automatic acquisition of a large subcategorization dictionary from corpora
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic acquisition of the lexical semantics of verbs from sentence frames
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Degrees of stativity: the lexical representation of verb aspect
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 4
Role of word sense disambiguation in lexical acquisition: predicting semantics from syntactic cues
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Clustering verbs semantically according to their alternation behaviour
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Corpus-based linguistic indicators for aspectual classification
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Acquiring lexical generalizations from corpora: a case study for diathesis alternations
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
A probabilistic account of logical metonymy
Computational Linguistics
Towards automatic fine-grained semantic classification of verb-noun collocations
Natural Language Engineering
Verb class disambiguation using informative priors
Computational Linguistics
Accessor variety criteria for Chinese word extraction
Computational Linguistics
Clustering adjectives for class acquisition
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
A general feature space for automatic verb classification
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Experiments on the choice of features for learning verb classes
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Learning verb argument structure from minimally annotated corpora
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Probabilistic models of verb-argument structure
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Crosslinguistic transfer in automatic verb classification
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A multilingual paradigm for automatic verb classification
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Clustering polysemic subcategorization frame distributions semantically
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Spectral clustering for German verbs
EMNLP '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - Volume 10
Semi-supervised verb class discovery using noisy features
CONLL '03 Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4
Deriving verb-meaning clusters from syntactic structure
HLT-NAACL-TEXTMEANING '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Text meaning - Volume 9
The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles
Computational Linguistics
Experiments on the Automatic Induction of German Semantic Verb Classes
Computational Linguistics
The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment
Computational Linguistics
Towards a semantic classification of Spanish verbs based on subcategorisation information
ACLstudent '04 Proceedings of the ACL 2004 workshop on Student research
Automatic classification of verbs in biomedical texts
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Semantic role labeling via FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives from distributional evidence
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Identifying semantic relations and functional properties of human verb associations
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Parsing and subcategorization data
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Unsupervised induction of modern standard Arabic verb classes using syntactic frames and LSA
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Automatic recognition of German news focusing on future-directed beliefs and intentions
Computer Speech and Language
A general feature space for automatic verb classification
Natural Language Engineering
Semantic role labeling: an introduction to the special issue
Computational Linguistics
Automatic verb classification using multilingual resources
ConLL '01 Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning - Volume 7
CICLing '07 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Clustering Hungarian verbs on the basis of complementation patterns
ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL: Student Research Workshop
Parsing and subcategorization data
COLING ACL '06 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Shallow Semantic Parsing Based on FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
Can human verb associations help identify salient features for semantic verb classification?
CoNLL-X '06 Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Using selectional profile distance to detect verb alternations
CLS '04 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics
Extended lexical-semantic classification of English verbs
CLS '04 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics
A supervised algorithm for verb disambiguation into VerbNet classes
COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Towards robust animacy classification using morphosyntactic distributional features
EACL '06 Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Empirical evaluations of animacy annotation
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Unsupervised discovery of a statistical verb lexicon
EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Unsupervised induction of modern standard Arabic verb classes
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Identifying concept attributes using a classifier
DeepLA '05 Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition
Morphology vs. syntax in adjective class acquisition
DeepLA '05 Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition
Abstraction and generalisation in semantic role labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 1 - Volume 1
Supervised learning of a probabilistic lexicon of verb semantic classes
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 3 - Volume 3
A graph-theoretic framework for semantic distance
Computational Linguistics
Verb class discovery from rich syntactic data
CICLing'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
Automatic detection of non-deverbal event nouns for quick lexicon production
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Class-based approach to disambiguating levin verbs
Natural Language Engineering
Semi-supervised WSD in selectional preferences with semantic redundancy
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Distributional memory: A general framework for corpus-based semantics
Computational Linguistics
Modeling reciprocity in social interactions with probabilistic latent space models
Natural Language Engineering
Computational Models of Learning the Raising-Control Distinction
Research on Language and Computation
Grouping alternating schemata in semantic valence dictionary of polish verbs
TSD'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Text, speech and dialogue
Unsupervised learning of verb argument structures
CICLing'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
SIIS'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Security and Intelligent Information Systems
Regular polysemy: a distributional model
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Unsupervised induction of a syntax-semantics lexicon using iterative refinement
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Learning syntactic verb frames using graphical models
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Multilingual joint parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies with a latent variable model
Computational Linguistics
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Automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge is critical to a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Especially important is knowledge about verbs, which are the primary source of relational information in a sentence---the predicate-argument structure that relates an action or state to its participants (i.e., who did what to whom). In this work, we report on supervised learning experiments to automatically classify three major types of English verbs, based on their argument structure--specifically, the thematic roles they assign to participants. We use linguistically-motivated statistical indicators extracted from large annotated corpora to train the classifier, achieving 69.8% accuracy for a task whose baseline is 34%, and whose expert-based upper bound we calculate at 86.5%. A detailed analysis of the performance of the algorithm and of its errors confirms that the proposed features capture properties related to the argument structure of the verbs. Our results validate our hypotheses that knowledge about thematic relations is crucial for verb classification, and that it can be gleaned from a corpus by automatic means. We thus demonstrate an effective combination of deeper linguistic knowledge with the robustness and scalability of statistical techniques.