In this paper we propose a framework of verb semantic description in order to organize different granularity of similarity between verbs. Since verb meanings highly depend on their arguments we propose a verb thesaurus on the basis of possible shared meanings with predicate-argument structure. Motivations of this work are to (1) construct a practical lexicon for dealing with alternations, parap...

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is an essential task to understand human-centric images from a fine-grained perspective. Although end-to-end HOI models thrive, their paradigm of parallel human/object and verb class prediction loses two-stage methods' merit: object-guided hierarchy. The object in one triplet gives direct clues the be predicted. In this paper, we aim boost with statistic...

This is an overall description of ADESSE ("Base de datos de verbos, Alternancias de Diátesis y Esquemas Sintactico-Semánticos del Español"), an online database (http://adesse.uvigo.es/) with syntactic and semantic information for all clauses in a corpus of Spanish. The manually annotated corpus has 1.5 million words, 159,000 clauses and 3,450 different verb lemmas. ADESSE is an expanded version...

The idea that the syntactic behaviour of words is connected with their meaning has been the assumption behind research in elds such as lexical semantics and automatic clustering of words based on statistical methods. In particular much work has been done to describe the relation between the semantic characteristics of verbs and their syntactic patterns, among many Fillmore (1970) and Levin (199...

We hooked the 5th wheel and boat to the truck for the 240-mile drive to Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir for a walleye tournament. The reservoir is between Twin Falls, Idaho and Jackpot, Nevada. We always look forward to fishing this tournament as it’s a good walleye fishery and we have a lot of friends in the area. We pulled into the federal camp ground at the lake at noon on June 10 and were look...

Verbs and nouns differ not only on formal linguistic grounds but also in what they typically refer to: Verbs typically refer to actions, whereas nouns typically refer to objects. Prior neuroimaging studies have revealed that regions in the left lateral temporal cortex (LTC), including the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), respond selectively to action verbs relative to object nouns. ...