Leveraging Verb-Argument Structures to Infer Semantic Relations
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This paper presents a methodology to infer implicit semantic relations from verbargument structures. An annotation effort shows implicit relations boost the amount of meaning explicitly encoded for verbs. Experimental results with automatically obtained parse trees and verb-argument structures demonstrate that inferring implicit relations is a doable task.
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