Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for (2002)
| Venue: | In Proc. of the 40 th ACL |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Acl02proceedingsof,
author = {Computational Linguistics Acl and Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson and Vivian Tsang and Gianluca Allaria},
title = {Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for},
booktitle = {In Proc. of the 40 th ACL},
year = {2002},
pages = {207--214}
}
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Abstract
We demonstrate the benefits of a multi- lingual approach to automatic lexical se- mantic verb classification based on sta- tistical analysis of corpora in multiple languages. Our research incorporates two interrelated threads. In one, we exploit the similarities in the crosslinguistic classification of verbs, to extend work on English verb classification to a new language (Italian), and to new classes within that language, achieving an accu- racy of 86.4% (baseline 33.9%). Our sec- ond strand of research exploits the differences across languages in the syntactic expression of semantic properties, to show that complementary information about English verbs can be extracted from their translations in a second lan- guage (Chinese). The use of multilin- gual features improves classification performance of the English verbs, achieving an accuracy of 83.5% (baseline 33.3%).
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