Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II : Verb structure

Deriving Verb-Meaning Clusters From Syntactic Structure

This paper presents a methodology for using the argument structure of sentences, as encoded by the PropBank project, to develop clusters of verbs with similar meaning and usage. These clusters can be favorably compared to the classes developed by the VerbNet project. The most interesting cases are those where the clustering methodology suggests new members for VerbNet classes which will then be...

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Syntactic variation of support verb constructions

Syntactic Variation of Support Verb Constructions We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type ofmultiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can oc-cur with or without the verb, with no clear-cut semantic difference. We extracted from a large Frenchcorpus a set of examples of the two ...

On the structure and syntactic complexity of generalized definite languages

We give a forbidden pattern characterization for the class of 5 generalized definite languages, show that the corresponding problem is 6 NL-complete and can be solved in quadratic time. We also show that 7 their syntactic complexity coincides with that of the definite languages 8 and give an upper bound of n! for this measure. 9

Learning Syntactic Verb Frames using Graphical Models

We present a novel approach for building verb subcategorization lexicons using a simple graphical model. In contrast to previous methods, we show how the model can be trained without parsed input or a predefined subcategorization frame inventory. Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art on a verb clustering task, and is easily trained on arbitrary domains. This quantitative evaluation is com...