Linking WordNet Verb Classes to Semantic Interpretation.
Fernando Gómez · 1998
An analysis that defines predicates for Wordnet verb classes and links them to semantic interpretation is presented. The selectional restrictions for the thematic roles defining the predicates are WordNet ontological categories. Thematic roles are also linked to the syntactic relations that realize them. The paper illustrates the methodology by providing a detailed analysis of some major WordNet verb classes. 1 Introduction We present an analysis 1 of some WordNet verb classes (Miller et al., 1993; Fellbaum, 1993). Its purpose is to offer a detailed analysis of some verb classes so that the reader may grasp the main ideas guiding our methodology for constructing verb predicates using the WordNet lexicon. We plan to publish a complete listing of all our predicates and subpredicates for all WordNet verb classes, once they have been fully tested. In (Gomez, 1998), the reader can find a detailed description and evaluation of the semantic interpreter algorithm that uses the lexical entr...