Automatic acquisition of adjectival subcategorization from corpora

Authors:
Jeremy Yallop;Anna Korhonen;Ted Briscoe
Affiliations:
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Venue:
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel system for acquiring adjectival subcategorization frames (SCFs) and associated frequency information from English corpus data. The system incorporates a decision-tree classifier for 30 SCF types which tests for the presence of grammatical relations (GRs) in the output of a robust statistical parser. It uses a powerful pattern-matching language to classify GRs into frames hierarchically in a way that mirrors inheritance-based lexica. The experiments show that the system is able to detect SCF types with 70% precision and 66% recall rate. A new tool for linguistic annotation of SCFs in corpus data is also introduced which can considerably alleviate the process of obtaining training and test data for subcategorization acquisition.