1. Extracting verb valency frames with NooJ
Krešimir Šojat, Kristina Vučković*, Marko Tadić
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
Department of Linguistics
*Department of Information Sciences
Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia
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2. The Plan
Our agenda?
Full description of consumation verb valency frames (FrameNet by Fillmore, Atkins, Ruppenhofer et al, etc.)
given core arguments
searching for peripheral elements
time, place, manner, company (PP+I), instrument (NP+I), cause…
How?
using core verb valency frames description
checking the verb’s environment
-4 and +4 sets of word phrases
Why?
to prepare data for Croatian WordNet
to improve grammars for syntactic verb environment recognition
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3. Overview Croatian consumation verb valency main characteristics
Lexicon
data description
Syntactic grammar
detecting verb’s environment
Checking the data
exctracting frames
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4. Consumation verb valency lexicon
adding semantic information to lexicon
semantic field = cons
consumer
cons1 (Nominative)
consumed
cons2 (Genitive)
cons4 (Accusative)
cons7 (Instrumental)
core arguments = cons1 | cons12 | cons14 | cons17
jesti,V+FLX=JESTI+Aspect=inf+Prelaz=pov
+cons+cons1+cons14
Ja jedem (I am eating.)
Jedem (I am eating.)
Ona se najela gljiva. (She has stuffed herself with mushrooms).
Ja jedem ribu. (I’m eating fish.)
Oni se hrane kukuruzom.
(They are feeding on corn.)
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5. Grammars
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6. Grammars
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7. Results Kao i većina drugih, ta obitelj nikad ne jede u Branimirovoj
već hranu nosi
kući.
Like
many others, that family never eats in Branimirova street but carries their food
home. -4 i -3
većina drugih -2
ta obitelj -1
nikad
ne jede 1 u
Branimirovoj 2
već 3
hranu 4
nosi
<C>
<NP+Nom>
<R>
<VP+cons1>
<PP+L>
<NP+Acc>
<VP>
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8. Results 2 : problems
A: Ona se tako hrani poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri.
She feeds herself in such a manner due to her powerty that she must not disclose to her daughter.
B: Prije početka susreta jeli su kroasane i voće i pili voćne sokove.
Before the beginning of the meeting they ate croassans and fruit and drank fruit juices. -4 -3
ona -2 se -1
tako
hrani 1
poradi svoga siromaštva 2
što 3 ga 4
ne smije otkriti
<NP+Nom>
<VP>
<R>
<VP+cons1>
<PP+G>
<PRO>
<NP+Acc> -4 -3 -2 -1
prije početka
susreta
jeli su 1
kroasane
i voće 2 i 3
pili 4
voćne sokove
<PP+G>
<VP+cons14>
<NP+Acc>
<C>
<VP>
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9. Possible solutions 1 A: => A: <PP+G> - ADV+cause
<VP+cons1><PP+G><PRO+question><WF>
=>
<VP+cons1> <ADV+cause <PP+G <Att> > >
A: <PP+G> - ADV+cause
B: <PP+G> - ADV+time (S+vr)
<PP+G><VP+cons14>…
<ADV+time <PP+G> > <VP+cons14>
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10. Possible solutions 2 <ADV+cause>
A: Ona se tako hrani poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri.
B: Prije početka susreta jeli su kroasane i voće i pili voćne sokove.
ona
<NP+
CONSUMER> -4 -3
ona -2 se -1
tako
hrani 1
poradi svoga siromaštva 2
što 3 ga 4
ne smije otkriti
<NP+Nom>
<VP>
<R>
<VP+cons1>
<PP+G>
<PRO>
<NP+Acc>
tako
<ADV +manner>
poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri.
<ADV+cause> -4 -3 -2 -1
prije početka
susreta
jeli su 1
kroasane
i voće 2 i 3
pili 4
voćne sokove
<PP+G>
<VP+cons14>
<NP+Acc>
<C>
<VP>
prije početka susreta
<ADV+time>
kroasane i voće
<NP+CONSUMED>
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11. Future work building local grammars for recognizing
syntactic verb valency frames
morphosyntactic description of phrases
semantic verb valency frames
core + peripheral frame elements
check if described frames can be copied into other semantic fields
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