Title
SimVerb-3500: A Large-Scale Evaluation Set of Verb Similarity.
Abstract
Verbs play a critical role in the meaning of sentences, but these ubiquitous words have received little attention in recent distributional semantics research. We introduce SimVerb-3500, an evaluation resource that provides human ratings for the similarity of 3,500 verb pairs. SimVerb-3500 covers all normed verb types from the USF free-association database, providing at least three examples for every VerbNet class. This broad coverage facilitates detailed analyses of how syntactic and semantic phenomena together influence human understanding of verb meaning. Further, with significantly larger development and test sets than existing benchmarks, SimVerb-3500 enables more robust evaluation of representation learning architectures and promotes the development of methods tailored to verbs. We hope that SimVerb-3500 will enable a richer understanding of the diversity and complexity of verb semantics and guide the development of systems that can effectively represent and interpret this meaning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.18653/v1/D16-1235
EMNLP
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1608.00869
20
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
33
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniela Gerz1394.68
Ivan Vulic246252.59
Felix Hill334617.90
Roi Reichart476053.53
Anna Korhonen5133692.50