UDLex: Towards Cross-language Subcategorization Lexicons

Frequency, Acceptability, and Selection: A case study of clause-embedding

We investigate the relationship between the frequency with which verbs are found in particular subcategorization frames and the acceptability of those verbs in those frames, focusing in particular on subordinate clause-t…

Using Verb Subcategorization for Word Sense Disambiguation

We develop a model for predicting verb sense from subcategorization information and integrate it into SSI-Dijkstra, a wide-coverage knowledge-based WSD algorithm. Adding syntactic knowledge in this way should correct the…

Cross-Lingual Emotion Lexicon Induction using Representation Alignment in Low-Resource Settings

Emotion lexicons provide information about associations between words and emotions. They have proven useful in analyses of reviews, literary texts, and posts on social media, among other things. We evaluate the feasibili…

Automatic Extraction and Evaluation of Arabic LFG Resources

This paper presents the results of an approach to automatically acquire large-scale, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) resources for Arabic from the Penn Arabic Treebank (ATB). Our starting point is the earl…

Towards an Empirical Subcategorization of Multiword Expressions