Semantically enriched models for modal sense classification
- Modal verbs have different interpretations depending on their context. Previous approaches to modal sense classification achieve relatively high performance using shallow lexical and syntactic features. In this work we uncover the difficulty of particular modal sense distinctions by eliminating both distributional bias and sparsity of existing small-scale annotated corpora used in prior work. We build a semantically enriched model for modal sense classification by novelly applying features that relate to lexical, proposition-level, and discourse-level semantic factors. Besides improved classification performance, especially for difficult sense distinctions, closer examination of interpretable feature sets allows us to obtain a better understanding of relevant semantic and contextual factors in modal sense classification.
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| Author: | Mengfei Zhou, Anette Frank, Annemarie FriedrichORCiDGND, Alexis Palmer |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1056918 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/105691 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-941643-32-7OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, 18 September 2015, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Stroudsburg, PA |
| Editor: | Michael Roth, Annie Louis, Bonnie Webber, Tim Baldwin |
| Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/07/10 |
| First Page: | 44 |
| Last Page: | 53 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w15-2705 |
| Institutes: | Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik |
| Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik | |
| Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik / Professur für Sprachverstehen mit der Anwendung Digital Humanities | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
| Licence (German): |  Sonstige Open-Access-Lizenz |
