Verb Valency Semantic Representation for Deep Linguistic Processing

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Authors

HORÁK Aleš PALA Karel MATERNA Pavel DUŽÍ Marie

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference ACL 2007, Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Field Informatics
Keywords verb valency; verb frames; semantic representation; deep processing
Description In the paper we describe methods for exploitation of a new lexical database of valency frames (VerbaLex) in relation to Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). We present a detailed description of the Complex Valency Frames (CVF) as they appear in VerbaLex including basic ontology of the VerbaLex semantic roles. TIL is a typed logical system developed for natural language semantic representation using TIL logical forms known as constructions. It is well suited to handle the difficult language phenomena such as temporal relations, intensionality and propositional attitudes. Here we make use of the long-term development of the Normal Translation Algorithm aimed at automatic translation of natural language sentences into TIL constructions. We examine the relations between CVFs and TIL constructions of predicate-argument structures and discuss the procedure of automatic acquisition of the verbal object constructions.
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