Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation

Claire Bonial, Martha Palmer


Abstract
Recent efforts have focused on expanding the annotation coverage of PropBank from verb relations to adjective and noun relations, as well as light verb constructions (e.g., make an offer, take a bath). While each new relation type has presented unique annotation challenges, ensuring consistent and comprehensive annotation of light verb constructions has proved particularly challenging, given that light verb constructions are semi-productive, difficult to define, and there are often borderline cases. This research describes the iterative process of developing PropBank annotation guidelines for light verb constructions, the current guidelines, and a comparison to related resources.
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L16-1628
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3980–3985
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1628
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Claire Bonial and Martha Palmer. 2016. Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 3980–3985, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation (Bonial & Palmer, LREC 2016)
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