Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank

Ingrid Falk, Fabienne Martin


Abstract
This paper presents ongoing work for the construction of a French FactBank and a lexicon of French event-selecting predicates (ESPs), by applying the factuality detection algorithm introduced in (Saurí and Pustejovsky, 2012). This algorithm relies on a lexicon of ESPs, specifying how these predicates influence the polarity of their embedded events. For this pilot study, we focused on French factive and implicative verbs, and capitalised on a lexical resource for the English counterparts of these verbs provided by the CLSI Group (Nairn et al., 2006; Karttunen, 2012).
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W17-1803
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Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Eduardo Blanco, Roser Morante, Roser Saurí
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SemBEaR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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16–21
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-1803
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-1803
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Ingrid Falk and Fabienne Martin. 2017. Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank. In Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles, pages 16–21, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank (Falk & Martin, SemBEaR 2017)
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