Automatic prediction of aspectual class of verbs in context
- This paper describes a new approach to predicting the aspectual class of verbs in context, i.e., whether a verb is used in a stative or dynamic sense. We identify two challenging cases of this problem: when the verb is unseen in training data, and when the verb is ambiguous for aspectual class. A semi-supervised approach using linguistically-motivated features and a novel set of distributional features based on representative verb types allows us to predict classes accurately, even for unseen verbs. Many frequent verbs can be either stative or dynamic in different contexts, which has not been modeled by previous work; we use contextual features to resolve this ambiguity. In addition, we introduce two new datasets of clauses marked for aspectual class.
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| Author: | Annemarie FriedrichORCiDGND, Alexis Palmer |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1057108 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/105710 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-937284-73-2OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), June 22-27, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Stroudsburg, PA |
| Editor: | Kristina Toutanova, Hua Wu |
| Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/07/10 |
| First Page: | 517 |
| Last Page: | 523 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/p14-2085 |
| 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 |
