The paper presents new lexicon of verb valencies for the Czech language named VerbaLex. VerbaLex is based on three valuable language resources for Czech, three independent electronic dictionaries of verb valency frames. The first resource, Czech WordNet valency frames dictionary, was created during the Balkanet project and contains semantic roles and links to the Czech WordNet semantic network....

is paper aims at providing a formal description of three types of Korean compounds made up of two verbs (VV compounds) in the Generative Lexicon framework. I will rst discuss several properties commonly ascribed to VV compounds and address the problem of identifying lexical VV compounds as opposed to SVCs and similar constructions. I will then argue that the complex semantic structure and the ...

Computational lexicons can play a key role in the Semantic Web: aiming at making word content machine-understandable, they intend to provide an explicit representation of word meaning, so that it can be directly accessed and used by computational agents, such as large-coverage parsers, modules for intelligent Information Retrieval or Information Extraction. In all these cases, semantic informat...

This paper presents a methodology for creating a gold standard for sense definition using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. We demonstrate how this method can be used to create in a single step, quickly and cheaply, a lexicon of sense inventories and the corresponding sense-annotated lexical sample. We show the results obtained by this method for a sample verb and discuss how it can be improved...

One of the challanges for building natural language processing systems is that of reducing the size of the lexicon while still accounting for the polymorphic behavior of language. One instance of verbal polymorphism is the ability of certain predicates (e.g. enjoy, promise , begin, etc.) to surface with diierent complement structures, which requires, under traditional approaches, multiple listi...

The paper describes an ongoing project of building a bilingual valency lexicon in the framework of Functional Generative Description. The bilingual lexicon is designed as a result of interlinking frames and frame elements of two already existing valency lexicons. First, we give an overall account of the character of the lexicons to be linked, second, the process of frame linking is explained, a...

This paper describes the building of a valency lexicon of Arabic verbs using a morphologically and syntactically annotated corpus, the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank, as its primary source. We present the theoretical account on valency developed within the Functional Generative Description theory. We apply the framework to Arabic and discuss various valency-related phenomena with respect to ...

In this paper we will discuss the application of (Segmented) Discourse Representation Theory and the Generative Lexicon to the analysis of a historical French corpus of itineraries in the Pyrénées. Our research will focus in particular on how type coercion (Pustejovsky, 1995) can help us give a correct analysis of cases of so-called “fictive motion” (Talmy, 1999), which is evident is phrases like.

This paper describes a lightweight method for capitalizing speech transcriptions. Several resources were used, including a lexicon, newspaper written corpora and speech transcriptions. Different approaches were tested both generative and discriminative: finite state transducers, automatically built from Language Models; and maximum entropy models. Evaluation results are presented both for writt...