Automatic Discovery of Manner Relations and its Applications

This paper presents a method for the automatic discovery of MANNER relations from text. An extended definition of MANNER is proposed, including restrictions on the sorts of concepts that can be part of its domain and range. The connections with other relations and the lexico-syntactic patterns that encode MANNER are analyzed. A new feature set specialized on MANNER detection is depicted and justified. Experimental results show improvement over previous attempts to extract MANNER. Combinations of MANNER with other semantic relations are also discussed.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Eduardo Blanco, Dan I. Moldovan
• Keywords: EMNLP 2010, Extended Definition, MANNER Detection, MANNER Relations, Natural Language Processing