Title
Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora
Abstract
In this paper, we reported experiments of unsupervised automatic acquisition of Italian and English verb subcategorization frames (SCFs) from general and domain corpora. The proposed technique operates on syntactically shallow-parsed corpora on the basis of a limited number of search heuristics not relying on any previous lexico-syntactic knowledge about SCFs. Although preliminary, reported results are in line with state-of-the-art lexical acquisition systems. The issue of whether verbs sharing similar SCFs distributions happen to share similar semantic properties as well was also explored by clustering verbs that share frames with the same distribution using the Minimum Description Length Principle (MDL). First experiments in this direction were carried out on Italian verbs with encouraging results.
Year
Venue
Field
2008
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, LREC 2008
Verb,Subcategorization,Computer science,Minimum description length,Semantic property,Speech recognition,Heuristics,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Parsing,Cluster analysis,Lexical acquisition
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
7
0.47
References 
Authors
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessandro Lenci163361.92
Barbara McGillivray276.22
Simonetta Montemagni325533.40
Vito Pirrelli411822.64