Automatic Extraction of Subcategorization from Corpora

We describe a novel technique and implemented system for constructing a subcategorization dictionary from textual corpora. Each dictionary entry encodes the relative frequency of occurrence of a comprehensive set of subcategorization classes for English. An initial experiment, on a sample of 14 verbs which exhibit multiple complementation patterns, demonstrates that the technique achieves accuracy comparable to previous approaches, which are all limited to a highly restricted set of subcategorization classes. We also demonstrate that a subcategorization dictionary built with the system improves the accuracy of a parser

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Ted Briscoe, John Carroll
• Keywords: ANLP 1997, Subcategorization Classes, Subcategorization Dictionary, Technique Achieves Accuracy