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Vol. 3 (2015)

TACL approved

Semantic Proto-Roles

Published 2015-08-11

  • Drew Reisinger
    • ,
  • Rachel Rudinger
    • ,
  • Francis Ferraro
    • ,
  • Craig Harman
    • ,
  • Kyle Rawlins
    • ,
  • Benjamin Van Durme

Drew Reisinger
Johns Hopkins University

Rachel Rudinger
Johns Hopkins University

Francis Ferraro
Johns Hopkins University

Craig Harman
Johns Hopkins University

Kyle Rawlins
Johns Hopkins University

Benjamin Van Durme
Johns Hopkins University

Abstract

We present the first large-scale, corpus based verification of the seminal work of Dowty on the notion of thematic proto-roles. Our results demonstrate both the need for and the feasibility of a property-based annotation scheme of semantic relationships, as opposed to the currently dominant notion of categorical roles.
PDF (presented at EMNLP 2015)

Author Biography

Drew Reisinger

PhD student in Cognitive Science