Alternations and Verb Semantic Classes for French: Analysis and Class Formation

  • Patrick Saint-Dizier
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Part of the Text, Speech and Language Technology book series (TLTB, volume 6)

Abstract

In this paper, we show how alternations (called here contexts) can be defined for French, what their semantic properties are and how verb semantic classes can be constructed from syntactic criteria following (Levin 93). We then analyze the global quality of the results in terms of overlap with classes formed from the same verb-senses using WordNetlike classification criteria. Finally, we propose a method which combines these two approaches to form verb semantic classes better suited for natural language processing.

Keywords

Semantic Relatedness Argument Structure Thematic Role Semantic Classis Transitive Verb 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Patrick Saint-Dizier
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  1. 1.Université Paul SabatierIRIT — CNRSToulouse CedexFrance

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