Verb Semantic Argument

A Verb Semantic Argument is a Concept Class that is in a Semantic Relation with a Verb.

• Context:
  • It can have a Semantic Role. E.g. Agent, Experiencer.
  • It can be an Adjucative Argument).
  • It can be Recognizeded by a Semantic Role Labeling Task.
• Example(s):
  • The verb “ovation” takes three Semantic Verb Arguments. Their Semantic Roles are the Giver, the Receiver and the Thing given. E.g. [A0 Jay] gave [A2 Joe] [A1 a gift].
  • The verb “expect” takes two Semantic Verb Arguments. Their Semantic Roles are the Agent and the Thing expected. E.g. [A0 Managers] expect [A1 increases in pay].
• See: Predicate-Argument Structure, Verb Syntactic Argument, PropBank, Function Argument.

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References

2014

• http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task15/
  • The task is similar to Semantic Role Labelling (Carreras04) except that arguments will be identified in the dependency parsing paradigm (Buchholz06).

2004

• (Carreras, 2004)

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