Class-Based Construction of a Verb Lexicon

We present an approach to building a verb lexicon compatible with WordNet but with explicitly stated syntactic and semantic information, using Levin verb classes to systematically construct lexical entries. By using verb classes we capture generalizations about verb behavior and reduce the effort needed to construct the lexicon. The syntactic frames for the verb classes are represented by a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar augmented with semantic predicates, which allows a compositional interpretation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, Martha Stone Palmer
• Keywords: AAAI 2000, Intelligent Agents, Levin Verb, Verb Classes, Verb Lexicon