Automatic extraction of subcategorization frames for Italian

Subcategorization is a kind of knowledge which can be considered as crucial in several NLP tasks, such as Information Extraction or parsing, but the collection of very large resources including subcategorization representation is difficult and time-consuming. Various experiences show that the automatic extraction can be a practical and reliable solution for acquiring such a kind of knowledge. The aim of this paper is at investigating the relationships between subcategorization frame extraction and the nature of data from which the frames have to be extracted, e.g. how much the task can be influenced by the richness/poorness of the annotation. Therefore, we present some experiments that apply statistical subcategorization extraction methods, known in literature, on an Italian treebank that exploits a rich set of dependency relations that can be annotated at different degrees of specificity. Benefiting of the availability of relation sets that implement different granularity in the repr...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Dino Ienco, Serena Villata, Cristina Bosco
• Keywords: Automatic Extraction, Education, LREC 2008, Statistical Subcategorization Extraction, Subcategorization Frame Extraction