We present a class-based approach to building a verb lexicon that makes explicit the close relation between syntax and semantics for Levin classes. We have used a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar to capture the syntax associated with each verb class and have added semantic predicates to each tree, which allow for a compositional interpretation.

The revised Arabic PropBank (APB) reflects a number of changes to the data and the process of PropBanking. Several changes stem from Treebank revisions. An automatic process was put in place to map existing annotation to the new trees. We have revised the original 493 Frame Files from the Pilot APB and added 1462 new files for a total of 1955 Frame Files with 2446 framesets. In addition to a he...

We present an implicit tensor factorization method for learning the embeddings of transitive verb phrases. Unlike the implicit matrix factorization methods recently proposed for learning word embeddings, our method directly models the interaction between predicates and their two arguments, and learns verb phrase embeddings. By representing transitive verbs as matrices, our method captures multi...

This study aims to explain the basic structure of Riau Malay clauses using a linguistic typology approach. Data obtained from oral and written data. The method used is Sudaryanto (2005). discussion based on opinion Jufrizal (2012). results showed that BMR were in form (1) non-verbal whose predicates are nouns (pronouns), adjectives, numerals, prepositions which located one argument before predi...

In this paper, I present a lexical representation of the light verb ha 'do' used in two types of Korean light verb constructions (LVCs). These two types of the constructions have the typical theoretical and implementation problems as multiword expressions (MWEs): lexical proliferation of the possible light verb senses in the lexicon, potential overgeneration of illformed LVCs, and the semantic ...

Thematic relations are traditionally analysed as projecting into derivations of sentence meanings from the lexical content verbs. separation, a natural outgrowth event semantics, proposes an alternative to this tradition: thematic introduced by verb-independent elements and are, therefore, grammatically separate Although critical theories meaning representation, evidence for separation has not ...

In South-Asian languages such as Hindi and Urdu, action verbs having compound constructions and serial verbs constructions pose serious problems for natural language processing and other linguistic tasks. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 51, 500, 000 speakers in India. Action verbs that occur spontaneously in day-to-day communication are highly ambiguous in nature semantically and as a ...