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Intro to VerbNet

Learn about VerbNet, enriching verb entries in WordNet with specific syntactic details based on Levin Classes and English Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Explore 3100 verbs across 47 top-level and 193 second/third-level classes through VerbNet Structure XML Files.

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Intro to VerbNet

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  1. Intro to VerbNet Wentao Ding

  2. 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

  3. Verb Class • Levin Verb Classes (Levin 1993) • 3100 verbs, 47 top level classes, 193 second and third level.

  4. 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

  5. VerbNet Class • Members • VerbNet Members of this class • ThemRoles • Frames • Frame: Syntax & Semantics • Subclass

  6. VerbNet Member • Similar to WordNet senses Group VerbNet Class

  7. VerbNet Class • Members • ThemRoles • Semantic Roles in frames of this class 30 roles: Actor, Agent, Asset, …, Theme, Time, Topic, … • Frames • Frame • Subclass

  8. Frame • Description(Type) • Primary • Secondary • Examples • Syntax • Semantics

  9. Frame • Type • Primary • Secondary • Syntax • Restrictons • SYNRESTRS • SELRESTRS • Semantic • Predicate-Arguments • Event

  10. Frame • Statistic • online data(http://verbs.colorado.edu/verb-index/vn/reference.php) • the online data is not the latest version

  11. Class Hierarchy • Inherit relation • Statistics

  12. Total Statistics • https://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/projects/verbnet.html • maybe a little out of date too

  13. Q & A • Thanks for listening

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