Semantic Proto-Roles

Drew Reisinger, Rachel Rudinger, Francis Ferraro, Craig Harman, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme


Abstract
We present the first large-scale, corpus based verification of Dowty’s seminal theory of proto-roles. Our results demonstrate both the need for and the feasibility of a property-based annotation scheme of semantic relationships, as opposed to the currently dominant notion of categorical roles.
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Q15-1034
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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 3
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2015
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Cambridge, MA
Editors:
Michael Collins, Lillian Lee
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TACL
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MIT Press
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Pages:
475–488
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/Q15-1034
DOI:
10.1162/tacl_a_00152
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Drew Reisinger, Rachel Rudinger, Francis Ferraro, Craig Harman, Kyle Rawlins, and Benjamin Van Durme. 2015. Semantic Proto-Roles. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3:475–488.
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Semantic Proto-Roles (Reisinger et al., TACL 2015)
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