To Cause Or Not To Cause: Cross-Lingual Semantic Matching for Paraphrase Modelling
Sebastian Padó, Katrin Erk · 2005
This paper presents a manual pilot study in cross-linguistic analysis at the predicate-argument level. Looking at translation pairs differing in their parts of speech, we find that predicate-argument structure abstracts somewhat from morphosyntac-tic language idiosyncrasies, but there is still considerable variation in the distri-bution of semantic material over predi-cates. We propose an algorithm for auto-matically identifying matching predicate-argument structures (frame paraphrases). The resulting data allows an analysis of semantic differences e.g. in the expression of different degrees of causality. 1