Acquiring Opposition Relations among Italian Verb Senses using Crowdsourcing

Anna Feltracco, Simone Magnolini, Elisabetta Jezek, Bernardo Magnini

Abstract
We describe an experiment for the acquisition of opposition relations among Italian verb senses, based on a crowdsourcing methodology. The goal of the experiment is to discuss whether the types of opposition we distinguish (i.e. complementarity, antonymy, converseness and reversiveness) are actually perceived by the crowd. In particular, we collect data for Italian by using the crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower. We ask annotators to judge the type of opposition existing among pairs of sentences -previously judged as opposite- that differ only for a verb: the verb in the first sentence is opposite of the verb in second sentence. Data corroborate the hypothesis that some opposition relations exclude each other, while others interact, being recognized as compatible by the contributors.
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L16-1339
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2138–2144
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Anna Feltracco, Simone Magnolini, Elisabetta Jezek, and Bernardo Magnini. 2016. Acquiring Opposition Relations among Italian Verb Senses using Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2138–2144, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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