The Predicate Matrix and the Event and Implied Situation Ontology: Making More of Events

Roxane Segers, Egoitz Laparra, Marco Rospocher, Piek Vossen, German Rigau, Filip Ilievski


Abstract
This paper presents the Event and Implied Situation Ontology (ESO), a resource which formalizes the pre and post situations of events and the roles of the entities affected by an event. The ontology reuses and maps across existing resources such as WordNet, SUMO, VerbNet, PropBank and FrameNet. We describe how ESO is injected into a new version of the Predicate Matrix and illustrate how these resources are used to detect information in large document collections that otherwise would have remained implicit. The model targets interpretations of situations rather than the semantics of verbs per se. The event is interpreted as a situation using RDF taking all event components into account. Hence, the ontology and the linked resources need to be considered from the perspective of this interpretation model.
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2016.gwc-1.51
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Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC)
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27--30 January
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2016
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Bucharest, Romania
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Christiane Fellbaum, Piek Vossen, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Corina Forascu
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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364–372
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Roxane Segers, Egoitz Laparra, Marco Rospocher, Piek Vossen, German Rigau, and Filip Ilievski. 2016. The Predicate Matrix and the Event and Implied Situation Ontology: Making More of Events. In Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC), pages 364–372, Bucharest, Romania. Global Wordnet Association.
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