Abstract
Existing approaches to automatic VerbNet-style verb classification are heavily dependent on feature engineering and therefore limited to languages with mature NLP pipelines. In this work, we propose a novel cross-lingual transfer method for inducing VerbNets for multiple languages. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study which demonstrates how the architectures for learning word embeddings can be applied to this challenging syntactic-semantic task. Our method uses cross-lingual translation pairs to tie each of the six target languages into a bilingual vector space with English, jointly specialising the representations to encode the relational information from English VerbNet. A standard clustering algorithm is then run on top of the VerbNet-specialised representations, using vector dimensions as features for learning verb classes. Our results show that the proposed cross-lingual transfer approach sets new state-of-the-art verb classification performance across all six target languages explored in this work.- Anthology ID:
- D17-1270
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2546–2558
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D17-1270
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D17-1270
- Cite (ACL):
- Ivan Vulić, Nikola Mrkšić, and Anna Korhonen. 2017. Cross-Lingual Induction and Transfer of Verb Classes Based on Word Vector Space Specialisation. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2546–2558, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Cross-Lingual Induction and Transfer of Verb Classes Based on Word Vector Space Specialisation (Vulić et al., EMNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/D17-1270.pdf
- Data
- FrameNet, Panlex