Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes and Alternations
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چکیده
Verbs (in lemma form) and syntactic frames are automatically extracted from the ATB.! In order to acquire an argument structure for the verbs,!I only considered structure that is internal to the maximal Verb Phrase (VP) projection of the verb. However, within the VP, all sisters of the verb are excluded except for those in a close semantic relationship to the verb.! This is facilitated by the fact that the ATB annotators specifically tag internal noun phrases (NP)s as subjects and objects. Moreover,!I consider prepositional phrases (PPs) tagged as closely related since they are manually indicated by the ATB annotators as essential for the meaning of the verb. Finally,!I assume clauses that are sisters of the verb are arguments of the verb.
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