A ‘Dipdive’ into Motion: Exploring Lexical Resources towards a Comprehensive Semantic and Syntactic Description

Svetlozara Leseva


Abstract
In this paper I illustrate the semantic description of verbs provided in three semantic resources (FrameNet, VerbNet and VerbAtlas) in comparative terms with a view to identifying common and distinct components in their representation and obtaining a preliminary idea of the resources’ interoperability. To this end, I provide a comparison of a small sample of motion verbs aligned with semantic frames and classes in the three resources. I also describe the semantic annotation of Bulgarian motion verbs using the framework defined in the Berkeley FrameNet project and its enrichment with information from the other two resources, which has been enabled by the mapping between: (i) their major semantic units – FrameNet frames, VerbNet classes and VerbAtlas frames, and (ii) their ’building blocks’ – frame elements (FrameNet )and semantic roles (VerbNet, VerbAtlas).
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
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2024
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Svetlozara Leseva. 2024. A ‘Dipdive’ into Motion: Exploring Lexical Resources towards a Comprehensive Semantic and Syntactic Description. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024), pages 296–308, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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