ClearTAC: Verb Tense, Aspect, and Form Classification Using Neural Nets

Skatje Myers, Martha Palmer


Abstract
This paper proposes using a Bidirectional LSTM-CRF model in order to identify the tense and aspect of verbs. The information that this classifier outputs can be useful for ordering events and can provide a pre-processing step to improve efficiency of annotating this type of information. This neural network architecture has been successfully employed for other sequential labeling tasks, and we show that it significantly outperforms the rule-based tool TMV-annotator on the Propbank I dataset.
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W19-3315
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
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August
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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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136–140
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3315
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3315
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Skatje Myers and Martha Palmer. 2019. ClearTAC: Verb Tense, Aspect, and Form Classification Using Neural Nets. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, pages 136–140, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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