Improving Semantic Role Classification with Selectional Preferences

This work incorporates Selectional Preferences (SP) into a Semantic Role (SR) Classification system. We learn separate selectional preferences for noun phrases and prepositional phrases and we integrate them in a state-of-the-art SR classification system both in the form of features and individual class predictors. We show that the inclusion of the refined SPs yields statistically significant improvements on both in domain and out of do

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre, Lluís Màrquez, Mihai Surdeanu
• Keywords: Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2010, Selectional Preferences, Separate Selectional Preferences, State-of-the-art Sr Classification