Comparing Dependency and Constituent Syntax for Frame-semantic Analysis
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues · 2008
We address the question of which syntactic representation is best suited for role-semantic analysis of English in the FrameNet paradigm.We compare systems based on dependencies and constituents, and a dependency syntax with a rich set of grammatical functions with one with a smaller set.Our experiments show that dependency-based and constituent-based analyzers give roughly equivalent performance, and that a richer set of functions has a positive influence on argument classification for verbs.