no code implementations • EMNLP (LAW, DMR) 2021 • Jens E. L. Van Gysel, Meagan Vigus, Lukas Denk, Andrew Cowell, Rosa Vallejos, Tim O’Gorman, William Croft
Computational resources such as semantically annotated corpora can play an important role in enabling speakers of indigenous minority languages to participate in government, education, and other domains of public life in their own language.
no code implementations • DMR (COLING) 2020 • Meagan Vigus, Jens E. L. Van Gysel, Tim O’Gorman, Andrew Cowell, Rosa Vallejos, William Croft
This paper presents a “road map” for the annotation of semantic categories in typologically diverse languages, with potentially few linguistic resources, and often no existing computational resources.
no code implementations • DMR (COLING) 2020 • Pavlina Kalm, Michael Regan, Sook-kyung Lee, Chris Peverada, William Croft
This paper introduces a representation and annotation scheme for argument structure constructions that are used metaphorically with verbs in different semantic domains.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2022 • William Croft, Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
Using historical data on journal performance, this can be framed as a machine learning regression problem.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2021 • Richard A Blythe, William Croft
Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions between individual speakers.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Pavlina Kalm, Michael Regan, William Croft
This paper proposes a novel representation of event structure by separating verbal semantics and the meaning of argument structure constructions that verbs occur in.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Meagan Vigus, Jens E. L. Van Gysel, William Croft
This paper presents an annotation scheme for modality that employs a dependency structure.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Jens E. L. Van Gysel, Meagan Vigus, Pavlina Kalm, Sook-kyung Lee, Michael Regan, William Croft
Developers of cross-linguistic semantic annotation schemes face a number of issues not encountered in monolingual annotation.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • William Croft, Pavl{\'\i}na Pe{\v{s}}kov{\'a}, Michael Regan, Sook-kyung Lee
We present a rich annotation scheme for the structure of mental events.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Lucia Donatelli, Michael Regan, William Croft, Nathan Schneider
Although English grammar encodes a number of semantic contrasts with tense and aspect marking, these semantics are currently ignored by Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) annotations.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • William Croft, Pavl{\'\i}na Pe{\v{s}}kov{\'a}, Michael Regan
Storyline research links together events in stories and specifies shared participants in those stories.
no code implementations • 29 Apr 2015 • Hyejin Youn, Logan Sutton, Eric Smith, Cristopher Moore, Jon F. Wilkins, Ian Maddieson, William Croft, Tanmoy Bhattacharya
How universal is human conceptual structure?