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Intro to VerbNet. Wentao Ding. VerbNet. An enrichment of verb entries in WordNet that Includes verb class membership Includes more specific syntactic information Draws heavily on Levin Classes and the English Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Proposition Bank. Verb Class.
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Intro to VerbNet Wentao Ding
VerbNet • An enrichment of verb entries in WordNet that • Includes verb class membership • Includes more specific syntactic information • Draws heavily on Levin Classes and the English Tree-Adjoining Grammar Proposition Bank
Verb Class • Levin Verb Classes (Levin 1993) • 3100 verbs, 47 top level classes, 193 second and third level.
VerbNet Structure XML File meet-36.3 performance-26.7 meet-36.3.xml per…-26.7-2 meet-36.3-2 per…-26.7-1 meet-36.3-1 VerbNet Class per…-26.7-1-1 per…-26.7-2-1 member VerbNet member member member member member member member “fight” “paint” “meet” “play” “perform” “draw” Word
VerbNet Class • Members • VerbNet Members of this class • ThemRoles • Frames • Frame: Syntax & Semantics • Subclass
VerbNet Member • Similar to WordNet senses Group VerbNet Class
VerbNet Class • Members • ThemRoles • Semantic Roles in frames of this class 30 roles: Actor, Agent, Asset, …, Theme, Time, Topic, … • Frames • Frame • Subclass
Frame • Description(Type) • Primary • Secondary • Examples • Syntax • Semantics
Frame • Type • Primary • Secondary • Syntax • Restrictons • SYNRESTRS • SELRESTRS • Semantic • Predicate-Arguments • Event
Frame • Statistic • online data(http://verbs.colorado.edu/verb-index/vn/reference.php) • the online data is not the latest version
Class Hierarchy • Inherit relation • Statistics
Total Statistics • https://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/projects/verbnet.html • maybe a little out of date too
Q & A • Thanks for listening