Abstract
This paper describes an ongoing effort towards expanding the semantic and conceptual description of verbs in WordNet by combining information from two other resources, FrameNet and VerbNet, as well as enriching the verbs’ description with syntactic patterns extracted from the three resources. The conceptual description of verb synsets is provided by assigning a FrameNet frame which provides the relevant set of frame elements denoting the predicate’s participants and props. This information is supplemented by assigning a VerbNet class and the set of semantic roles associated with it. The information extracted from FrameNet and VerbNet and assigned to a synset is aligned (semi-automatically with subsequent manual corrections) at the following levels: (i) FrameNet frame: VerbNet class; (ii) FrameNet frame elements: VerbNet semantic roles; (iii) FrameNet semantic types and restrictions: VerbNet selectional restrictions. We then link the syntactic patterns associated with the units in FrameNet, VerbNet and WordNet, by unifying their representation and by matching the corresponding patterns at the level of syntactic groups. The alignment of the semantic components and their syntactic realisations is essential for the better exploitation of the abundance of information across resources, including shedding light on cross-resource similarities, discrepancies and inconsistencies. The syntactic patterns can facilitate the extraction of examples illustrating the use of verb synset literals in corpora and their semantic characterisation through the association of the syntactic groups with the components of semantic description (frame elements or semantic roles) and can be employed in various tasks requiring semantic and syntactic description. The resource is publicly available to the community. The components of the conceptual description are visualised showing the links to the original resources each component is drawn from.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.gwc-1.35
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference
- Month:
- January
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country
- Editors:
- German Rigau, Francis Bond, Alexandre Rademaker
- Venue:
- GWC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Global Wordnet Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 284–294
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.gwc-1.35
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ivelina Stoyanova and Svetlozara Leseva. 2023. Expanding the Conceptual Description of Verbs in WordNet with Semantic and Syntactic Information. In Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 284–294, University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country. Global Wordnet Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Expanding the Conceptual Description of Verbs in WordNet with Semantic and Syntactic Information (Stoyanova & Leseva, GWC 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-07/2023.gwc-1.35.pdf