According to Li & Thompson (1981), Chinese serial verb constructions consisting of two verb phrases denoting two separate events can be classified into those having alternating, consecutive, purpose or circumstance relations. These classifications may overlap and a serial verb construction may be ambiguous between different interpretations. It has been argued in a recent study (Chan 1996) that ...

Recent developments in language modeling have enabled large text encoders to derive a wealth of linguistic information from raw corpora without supervision. Their success across natural processing (NLP) tasks has called into question the role man-made computational resources, such as verb lexicons, supporting modern NLP. Still, probing analyses concurrently exposed limitations knowledge possess...

The aim of this paper is to describe a new method for the automatic resolution of lexical ambiguity of verbs in English texts, based on the idea of semantic similarity between nouns using WordNet. 1 An outline of our approach. The method of WSD proposed in this paper is based on knowledge and consists basically of sense-disambiguating of the verb that appear in an English sentence. A simple sen...

Main verb identification is the task of automatically identifying the predicate-verb in a sentence. It is useful for many applications in Chinese Natural Language Processing. Although most studies have focused on the model used to identify the main verb, the definition of the main verb should not be overlooked. In our specification design, we have found many complicated issues that still need t...

We present a cognitive model of inducing verb selectional preferences from individual verb usages. The selectional preferences for each verb argument are represented as a probability distribution over the set of semantic properties that the argument can possess—a semantic profile. The semantic profiles yield verb-specific conceptualizations of the arguments associated with a syntactic position....

This paper shows that inference rules with temporal constraints can be acquired by using verb-verb co-occurrences in Japanese coordinated sentences and verb-noun cooccurrences. For example, our unsupervised acquisition method could obtain the inference rule “If someone enforces a law, usually someone enacts the law at the same time as or before the enforcing of the law” since the verbs “enact” ...