A Discriminative Analysis of Fine-Grained Semantic Relations including Presupposition: Annotation and Classification

Galina Tremper, Anette Frank


Abstract
In contrast to classical lexical semantic relations between verbs, such as antonymy, synonymy or hypernymy, presupposition is a lexically triggered semantic relation that is not well covered in existing lexical resources. It is also understudied in the field of corpus-based methods of learning semantic relations. Yet, presupposition is very important for semantic and discourse analysis tasks, given the implicit information that it conveys. In this paper we present a corpus-based method for acquiring presupposition-triggering verbs along with verbal relata that express their presupposed meaning. We approach this difficult task using a discriminative classification method that jointly determines and distinguishes a broader set of inferential semantic relations between verbs. The present paper focuses on important methodological aspects of our work: (i) a discriminative analysis of the semantic properties of the chosen set of relations, (ii) the selection of features for corpus-based classification and (iii) design decisions for the manual annotation of fine-grained semantic relations between verbs. (iv) We present the results of a practical annotation effort leading to a gold standard resource for our relation inventory, and (v) we report results for automatic classification of our target set of fine-grained semantic relations, including presupposition. We achieve a classification performance of 55% F1-score, a 100% improvement over a best-feature baseline.
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2013.dnd-4.4
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Dialogue Discourse Volume 4
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2013
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Raquel Fernández, Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister, Bonnie Webber
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DND
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282–322
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10.5087/dad.2013.212
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Galina Tremper and Anette Frank. 2013. A Discriminative Analysis of Fine-Grained Semantic Relations including Presupposition: Annotation and Classification. Dialogue & Discourse, 4:282–322.
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