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Extracting verb valency frames with NooJ

Krešimir Šojat, Kristina Vučković*, Marko Tadić ksojat@ffzg.hr, kvuckovi@ffzg.hr,

marko.tadic@ffzg.hr Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of ZagrebDepartment of Linguistics

*Department of Information SciencesIvana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia

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The Plan

Our agenda? Full description of consumation verb valency frames

(FrameNet by Fillmore, Atkins, Ruppenhofer et al, etc.) given core arguments searching for peripheral elements

time, place, manner, company (PP+I), instrument (NP+I), cause…

How? using core verb valency frames description checking the verb’s environment

-4 and +4 sets of word phrases

Why? to prepare data for Croatian WordNet to improve grammars for syntactic verb environment

recognition

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Overview

Croatian consumation verb valency main characteristics

Lexicon data description

Syntactic grammar detecting verb’s environment

Checking the data exctracting frames

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Consumation verb valency lexicon

adding semantic information to lexicon semantic field = cons

consumer cons1 (Nominative)

consumed cons2 (Genitive) cons4 (Accusative) cons7 (Instrumental)

core arguments = cons1 | cons12 | cons14 | cons17

jesti,V+FLX=JESTI+Aspect=inf+Prelaz=pov

+cons+cons1+cons14

Ja jedem. (I am eating.)Jedem. (I am eating.)

Ona se najela gljiva. (She has stuffed herself with mushrooms).

Ja jedem ribu. (I’m eating fish.)Oni se hrane kukuruzom. (They are feeding on corn.)

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Grammars

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Grammars

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Results

-4

i

-3

većina drugih

-2

ta obitelj

-1

nikad

0

ne jede

1

u Branimirovoj

2

već

3

hranu

4

nosi

<C>

<NP+Nom>

<NP+Nom>

<R> <VP+cons1>

<PP+L> <C>

<NP+Acc>

<VP>

Kao i većina drugih, ta obitelj nikad ne jede u Branimirovoj već hranu nosikući.

Like many others, that family never eats in Branimirova street but carries their food home.

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Results 2 : problems A: Ona se tako hrani poradi svoga siromaštva što

ga ne smije otkriti kćeri. She feeds herself in such a manner due to her

powerty that she must not disclose to her daughter.

B: Prije početka susreta jeli su kroasane i voće i pili voćne sokove.

Before the beginning of the meeting they ate croassans and fruit and drank fruit juices.

-4

-3

ona

-2

se

-1

tako

0

hrani

1

poradi svoga siromaštva

2

što

3

ga

4

ne smije otkriti

<NP+Nom>

<VP>

<R>

<VP+cons1>

<PP+G> <PRO>

<NP+Acc>

<VP>

-4

-3

-2

-1

prije početka susreta

0

jeli su

1

kroasane i voće

2

i

3

pili

4

voćne sokove

<PP+G> <VP+cons14>

<NP+Acc>

<C>

<VP+cons14>

<VP>

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Possible solutions 1

A: <VP+cons1><PP+G><PRO+question><WF>

=> <VP+cons1> <ADV+cause <PP+G <Att>

> >

A: <PP+G> - ADV+cause B: <PP+G> - ADV+time (S+vr)

<PP+G><VP+cons14>… =>

<ADV+time <PP+G> > <VP+cons14>

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Possible solutions 2 A: Ona se tako hrani poradi svoga siromaštva što

ga ne smije otkriti kćeri.

B: Prije početka susreta jeli su kroasane i voće i pili voćne sokove.

-4

-3

ona

-2

se

-1

tako

0

hrani

1

poradi svoga siromaštva

2

što

3

ga

4

ne smije otkriti

<NP+Nom>

<VP>

<R>

<VP+cons1>

<PP+G> <PRO>

<NP+Acc>

<VP>

-4

-3

-2

-1

prije početka susreta

0

jeli su

1

kroasane i voće

2

i

3

pili

4

voćne sokove

<PP+G> <VP+cons14>

<NP+Acc>

<C>

<VP+cons14>

<VP>

poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri.

<ADV+cause>

ona

<NP+

CONSUMER>

tako

<ADV +manner>

prije početka susreta

<ADV+time>

kroasane i voće

<NP+CONSUMED>

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Future work

building local grammars for recognizing

1. syntactic verb valency frames morphosyntactic description of phrases

2. semantic verb valency frames core + peripheral frame elements

3. check if described frames can be copied into other semantic fields