Abstraction and generalisation in semantic role labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 288-296

  Merlo, Paola ^a   Van Der Plas, Lonneke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION SCHEME; GENERALISATION; SEMANTIC ROLES; STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS; VERBNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 71749089912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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