Modality: logic, semantics, annotation and machine learning

no code implementations • LILT 2016 • Annie Zaenen

Up to rather recently Natural Language Processing has not given much attention to modality.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Information Retrieval +2

VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer Verbs

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Susan Windisch Brown, Julia Bonn, James Gung, Annie Zaenen, James Pustejovsky, Martha Palmer

This paper announces the release of a new version of the English lexical resource VerbNet with substantially revised semantic representations designed to facilitate computer planning and reasoning based on human language.

Integrating Generative Lexicon Event Structures into VerbNet

no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Susan Windisch Brown, James Pustejovsky, Annie Zaenen, Martha Palmer

Semantic Parsing Semantic Role Labeling

Criteria for Identifying and Annotating Caused Motion Constructions in Corpus Data

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Jena D. Hwang, Annie Zaenen, Martha Palmer

While natural language processing performance has been improved through the recognition that there is a relationship between the semantics of the verb and the syntactic context in which the verb is realized, sentences where the verb does not conform to the expected syntax-semantic patterning behavior remain problematic.

Sentence

Veridicity annotation in the lexicon? A look at factive adjectives

no code implementations • WS 2013 • Annie Zaenen, Lauri Karttunen

Where's the meeting that was cancelled? existential implications of transitive verbs

no code implementations • WS 2012 • Patricia Amaral, Valeria de Paiva, Cleo Condoravdi, Annie Zaenen

Natural Language Inference