Lexical Resource Integration Across the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Abstract

This paper examines extending a database of English verbs, grouped into syntactico-semantic classes, with WordNet senses. Probabilistic associations between theta-grids and WordNet verb frames, SEMCOR frequency data, and disambiguration based on an information-theoretic notion of semantic similarity are used. Mapping successes and failures are illustrated with drop.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA458747

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  • Bonnie J. Door
  • Lisa Pearl
  • Philip Resnik
  • Rebecca Green

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  • University of Maryland

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