A database of semantic clusters of verb usages

Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub, Adam Rambousek, Lenka Smejkalová


Abstract
We are presenting VPS-30-En, a small lexical resource that contains the following 30 English verbs: access, ally, arrive, breathe, claim, cool, crush, cry, deny, enlarge, enlist, forge, furnish, hail, halt, part, plough, plug, pour, say, smash, smell, steer, submit, swell, tell, throw, trouble, wake and yield. We have created and have been using VPS-30-En to explore the interannotator agreement potential of the Corpus Pattern Analysis. VPS-30-En is a small snapshot of the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (Hanks and Pustejovsky, 2005), which we revised (both the entries and the annotated concordances) and enhanced with additional annotations. It is freely available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/spr. In this paper, we compare the annotation scheme of VPS-30-En with the original PDEV. We also describe the adjustments we have made and their motivation, as well as the most pervasive causes of interannotator disagreements.
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L12-1175
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3176–3183
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/359_Paper.pdf
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Silvie Cinková, Martin Holub, Adam Rambousek, and Lenka Smejkalová. 2012. A database of semantic clusters of verb usages. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3176–3183, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A database of semantic clusters of verb usages (Cinková et al., LREC 2012)
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