Acquiring Predicate-Argument Mapping Information from Multilingual Texts
Chinatsu Aone, Douglas C. McKee · 1993
This paper discusses automatic acquisition of predicate-argument mapping information from multilingual texts. The lexicon of our NLP system abstracts the language-dependent portion of predicate-argument mapping information from the core meaning of verb senses (i.e. semantic concepts as defined in the knowledge base). We represent this mapping information in terms of cross-linguistically generalized mapping types called situation types and word sense-specific idiosyncrasies. This representation has enabled us to automatically acquire predicate-argument mapping information, specifically situation types and idiosyncrasies, for verbs in English, Spanish, and Japanese texts.