Semantic Supersenses for English Possessives
Austin Blodgett, Nathan Schneider · 2018
We adapt an approach to annotating the semantics of adpositions to also include English possessives, showing that the supersense inventory of Schneider et al. (2017) works for the genitive 's clitic and possessive pronouns as well as prepositional of.By comprehensively annotating such possessives in an English corpus of web reviews, we demonstrate that the existing supersense categories are readily applicable to possessives.Our corpus will facilitate empirical study of the semantics of the genitive alternation and the development of semantic disambiguation systems.