Annotating Propositional Attitude Verbs and their Arguments

Marta Ricchiardi, Elisabetta Jezek


Abstract
This paper describes the results of an empirical study on attitude verbs and propositional attitude reports in Italian. Within the framework of a project aiming at acquiring argument structures for Italian verbs from corpora, we carried out a systematic annotation that aims at individuating which verbs are actually attitude verbs in Italian. The result is a list of 179 argument structures based on corpus-derived pattern of use for 126 verbs that behave as attitude verbs. The distribution of these verbs in the corpus suggests that not only the canonical that-clauses, i.e. subordinates introduced by the complementizerte che, but also direct speech, infinitives introduced by the complementizer di, and some nominals are good candidates to express propositional contents in propositional attitude reports. The annotation also enlightens some issues between semantics and ontology, concerning the relation between events and propositions.
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2022.isa-1.19
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Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Harry Bunt
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ISA
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European Language Resources Association
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142–149
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Marta Ricchiardi and Elisabetta Jezek. 2022. Annotating Propositional Attitude Verbs and their Arguments. In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022, pages 142–149, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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