... logical rules fora fragment of the semantic interpretation (and plan recognition) process. The four simple rules we gave already capture a wide variety of semantic and pragmatic phenomena. ... This has the effect. of concentrating all knowledge about all of an object's names as facts about the best name. Frail will take as input a simple frame representation and translate it ... giving an informal semantics for the spe- cial predicates and terms used by the system. Since we are doing semantic interpretation, we are translating be- tween a syntactic tree on one hand and...
... as we are dealing with real, spo- ken data, containing a lot of clearly ungrammatical utterances. For the annotation task, the annotation 4Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 5Public ... of quantification and negation (see section 5). 3.2 Semantic annotation We assume a corpus that is already syntactically annotated as before: with labelled trees that indi- cate surface constituent ... Bonnema~mars. let. uva. nl Rens. Bod@let. uva. nl Remko. Scha@let. uva. nl Abstract In data-oriented language processing, an annotated language corpus is used as a stochastic grammar. The...
... Zbinden, Alan McNaught,Rafael Alc´antara, Michael Darsow, Micka¨el Guedj,and Michael Ashburner. 2008. ChEBI: a databaseand ontology for chemical entities of biologicalinterest. Nucleic Acids ... transformsyntactic as well as morphological variations ofnames into a normalized name form. Basic trans-formations can be achieved via pattern match-ing (regular expressions) while for more com-plex ... a major goal of BioNLP is to automatically supporthumans by means of research in the area of infor-mation retrieval, data mining and information ex-traction. Term identification is of great...
... integrated treatment of syntax and semantics of a small fragment of natural language and test this by implementing it. The syntax of our toy grammar is a version of categorial grammar with feature ... Idea of Dynamic Interpretation Recent developments in Natural Language semantics have witnessed a shift away from static represen- tation languages towards representation languages with a ... boldface for the test program Rt~ tn and italics for the formula Rt t t~. We omit outermost parentheses as usual, and use T fora formula which is always true, I fora formula which is always...
... Krugler,Wayne Ward, James H. Martin, and Daniel Juraf-sky. 200 5a. Support vector learning for semantic argument classification. Machine Learning Journal.Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, JamesMartin, ... arguments,Arg0 is the Agent, Arg1 is Patient, etc. ArgM-may indicate adjunct arguments, such as Locative,Temporal.Many researchers (Gildea and Jurafsky, 2002;Pradhan et al., 200 5a) use feature-based ... Predicate Argument Feature spacenecessity of syntactic parsing forsemantic role la-beling. However, the standard flat features cannotmodel the syntactic information well. A predicate-argument...
... Martin, and Dan Jurafsky.200 5a. Support vector learning forsemantic argu-ment classification. Machine Learning, 60(1):11–39.Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, JamesMartin, and Daniel ... to automatically create an annotated corpus in a new language. Although these data are typicallyquite noisy, they have been used to train automaticsystems. For the particular case of transfer ... 29(1):19–51.Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Cross-lingual projection of role -semantic information. InProceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005.Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Valerie Krugler,Wayne Ward, James...
... redundant information. Hence, we will show how to annotate a syntax tree so that various interpretations can be characterized differently. Semantic Tagging A popular linguistic approach to annotate ... from asemantic representation. In general, a particular interpretation of a sentence can be represented by an annotated syntax tree (AST), which is a syntax tree annotated with fea- ture ... mantic score measure shows substantial im- provement in structural disambiguation over a syntax-based approach. 1. Introduction In a large natural language processing system, such as a machine...
... Obstetrics & Gynecology, 199(6B), S290-295. Conde-Agudelo, A. , Rosas-Bermudez, A. & Kafury-Goeta, A. C. (2006). Birth spacing and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes: A meta-analysis. Journal ... Clinicians available at: www.beforeandbeyond.org The CDC Clinical Work Group’s Content of Preconception Care available at: www.beforeandbeyond.org/?page=key-articles-and-studies Centers for ... Guidelines for perinatal care. Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). (1995). Preconception care (Technical Bulletin No.205). Washington,...
... especially those in thenarrative domain. Users can create for- mal propositions to represent spans of text,as well as temporal relations and otheraspects of narrative. A built-in natural-language ... is that a modelwith a wider scope is more challenging for anno-tators. For example, part-of-speech tagging is aneasier task than PropBank annotation. We believethat careful user interface ... (equivalent toFigure 2) as configured fora particular Aesopfable.3. The procedure for reading a text for impor-tant named entities, and formally declaringthese named entities for the story graph.4....
... desirable.FrameNet as a resource forsemantic role an-notation. Above, we have asked about the suitabil-ity of FrameNet forsemantic role annotation, andour data allow a first, though tentative, ... Extensive Semantic AnnotationKatrin Erk and Andrea Kowalski and Sebastian Pad´o and Manfred PinkalDepartment of Computational LinguisticsSaarland UniversitySaarbr¨ucken, Germany{erk, kowalski, ... suit-able resource as annotation basis. FrameNet roles,which are local to particular frames (abstract sit-uations), may be better suited for the annotationtask than the “classical” thematic...
... 2012.c2012 Association for Computational Linguistics A platform for collaborative semantic annotationValerio Basile and Johan Bos and Kilian Evang and Noortje Venhuizen{v.basile,johan.bos,k.evang,n.j.venhuizen}@rug.nlCenter ... IntroductionData-driven approaches in computational seman-tics are still rare because there are not manylarge annotated resources that provide empiri-cal information about anaphora, presupposition,scope, ... Venhuizen{v.basile,johan.bos,k.evang,n.j.venhuizen}@rug.nlCenter for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)University of Groningen, The NetherlandsAbstractData-driven approaches in computationalsemantics are not common because thereare only few semantically...
... over baseline), particularly given that, in addition to the manual reference answer facet representation, an automatically extracted approximation of the rep-resentation was a key factor in ... test examples, assigning a Table 1 label for each reference answer facet. We used a variety of linguistic features that as-sess the facets’ similarity via lexical entailment probabilities ... dependency parses are used to align the terms and facet-level information for feature extraction. Remaining details can be found in (Nielsen et al., 200 8a) and are not central to the semantic representation...
... Sameer Pradhan, Kadri Hacioglu, Valeri Krugler, Wayne Ward, James H. Martin and Daniel Jurafsky. 200 5a. Support vector learning forsemantic argument classi-fication. Journal of Machine Learning ... Sameer Pradhan, Wayne Ward, Kadri Hacioglu, James Martin and Daniel Jurafsky. 2005b. Semantic role la-beling using different syntactic views. ACL-2005 Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau ... feature selection for Natu-ral Language processing tasks. ACL-2004 Vladimir N. Vapnik. 1998. Statistical Learning Theory. Wiley Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2004. Calibrating features for...
... (Lexical Functional Grammar) grammars tooutput lambda terms (Dalrymple, 1999); and Clarkand Curran’s CCG (Combinatory Categorial Gram-mar) based statistical parser was linked to a seman-tic ... 2007.c2007 Association for Computational LinguisticsSemTAG: a platform for specifying Tree Adjoining Grammars andperforming TAG-based Semantic ConstructionClaire GardentCNRS / LORIACampus scientifique ... tree adjoining grammars. InProceedings of LACL05, Bordeaux, France. A. Joshi and Y. Schabes. 1997. Tree-adjoining gram-mars. In G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa, editors,Handbook of Formal Languages,...