Universal Decompositional Semantics on Universal Dependencies

Aaron Steven White1, Drew Reisinger1, Keisuke Sakaguchi1, Tim Vieira2, Sheng Zhang1, Rachel Rudinger1, Kyle Rawlins1, Benjamin Van Durme3
1Johns Hopkins University, 2Johns Hopkins, 3JHU


Abstract

We present a framework for augmenting data sets from the Universal Dependencies project with Universal Decompositional Semantics. Where the Universal Dependencies project aims to provide a syntactic dependency annotation standard that can be used consistently across many languages as well as a collection of corpora that use that standard, our extension has similar aims for semantic annotation. We describe results from annotating the English Universal Dependencies treebank, dealing with word senses, semantic roles, and event properties.