Classification of German verbs using nouns in argument positions and aspectual features

This paper provides evidence that aspectual verb classes (Vendler, 1967) can be induced from nominal fillers in argument positions and aspectual features. We classified 35 German verbs in a supervised learning procedure using a support vector machine classifier and a classification into five aspectual classes (Richter and van Hout, 2015) as gold standard and observed excellent and substantial agreements.