Learning Script Participants from Unlabeled Data

Michaela Regneri, Alexander Koller, Josef Ruppenhofer, Manfred Pinkal · Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language) · 2011

We introduce a system that learns the participants of arbitrary given scripts.This system processes data from web experiments, in which each participant can be realized with different expressions.It computes participants by encoding semantic similarity and global structural information into an Integer Linear Program.An evaluation against a gold standard shows that we significantly outperform two informed baselines.

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