Event Structure Representation: Between Verbs and Argument Structure Constructions

Pavlina Kalm, Michael Regan, William Croft


Abstract
This paper proposes a novel representation of event structure by separating verbal semantics and the meaning of argument structure constructions that verbs occur in. Our model demonstrates how the two meaning representations interact. Our model thus effectively deals with various verb construals in different argument structure constructions, unlike purely verb-based approaches. However, unlike many constructionally-based approaches, we also provide a richer representation of the event structure evoked by the verb meaning.
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W19-3311
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Nianwen Xue, William Croft, Jan Hajic, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephan Oepen, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovksy
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DMR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
100–109
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3311
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3311
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Pavlina Kalm, Michael Regan, and William Croft. 2019. Event Structure Representation: Between Verbs and Argument Structure Constructions. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 100–109, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Event Structure Representation: Between Verbs and Argument Structure Constructions (Kalm et al., DMR 2019)
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