There are a number of well known resources dealing with verb valency including PropBank (Palmer et al., 2005), VerbNet (Kipper et al., 2006) and VALLEX (Hajič et al., 2003). These include thematic roles, morpho-syntactic specifcations and selection preferences. A comparatively wide definition of valency including subcategorization information on all mentioned linguistic levels is applied here. ...

Information on subcategorization and selectional restrictions is very important for natural language processing in tasks such as monolingual parsing, accurate rule-based machine translation and automatic summarization. However, adding this detailed information to a valency dictionary is both time consuming and costly. In this paper we present a method of assigning valency information and select...

Although multivalent binding to surfaces is an important tool in nanotechnology, quantitative information about the residual valency and orientation of surface-bound molecules is missing. To address these questions, we study streptavidin (SAv) binding to commonly used biotinylated surfaces such as supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Stability and kinetics of SA...

This is an overall description of ADESSE ("Base de datos de verbos, Alternancias de Diátesis y Esquemas Sintactico-Semánticos del Español"), an online database (http://adesse.uvigo.es/) with syntactic and semantic information for all clauses in a corpus of Spanish. The manually annotated corpus has 1.5 million words, 159,000 clauses and 3,450 different verb lemmas. ADESSE is an expanded version...

Verb valency lexicon VerbaLex is one of few language resources which take a local context into account. For each Czech verb with its sense, VerbaLex contains appropriate valency frames (patterns with morphological and syntactical information) in which the verb can appear. This, and the fact that a context of a word is crucial for determining sense of the word, makes VerbaLex suitable for disamb...

Various English verb classifications have been analyzed in terms of their syntactic and semantic properties, and conceptual components, such as syntactic valency, lexical semantics, and semantic/syntactic correlations. Here the visual semantics of verbs, particularly their visual roles, somatotopic effectors, and level-of-detail, is studied. We introduce the notion of visual valency and use it ...

0. Abstract In this paper, we report on a large-scale conversion experiment with on-line valency dictionaries. A linguistically motivated valency dictionary in Prolog is converted into a valency dictionary for a large-scale machine translation system. Several aspects of the two dictionaries and their backgroand projects are discussed, as well as the way their representations are mapped. "/'he r...

Interpreting a natural line drawing as a solid object requires simplifying assumptions in order to make the problem more tractable. Unfortunately, some of the assumptions made in the past have overly simplified the problem. Restricting the valency of vertices, and in particular allowing only trihedral vertices, distorts the problem, since algorithms which are satisfactory for the simplified pro...

The star valency of a graph G is the minimum, over all star decompositions , of the maximum number of elements in incident with a vertex. The maximum average degree of G, denoted by dmax-ave(G), is the maximum average degree of all subgraphs of G. In this paper, we prove that the star valency of G is either dmax-ave(G)=2 or dmax-ave(G)=2 +1, and provide a polynomial time algorithm for determini...