Comprehensive supersense disambiguation of English prepositions and possessives

Nathan Schneider, Jakob Prange, Austin Blodgett, Jena D. Hwang, Sarah R. Moeller, Vivek Srikumar, Aviram Stern, Adi Bitan, Omri Abend

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Abstract

Semantic relations are often signaled with prepositional or possessive marking-but extreme polysemy bedevils their analysis and automatic interpretation. We introduce a new annotation scheme, corpus, and task for the disambiguation of prepositions and possessives in English. Unlike previous approaches, our annotations are comprehensive with respect to types and tokens of these markers; use broadly applicable supersense classes rather than fine-grained dictionary definitions; unite prepositions and possessives under the same class inventory; and distinguish between a marker's lexical contribution and the role it marks in the context of a predicate or scene. Strong interannotator agreement rates, as well as encouraging disambiguation results with established supervised methods, speak to the viability of the scheme and task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages185-196
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781948087322
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 15 Jul 201820 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
Volume1

Conference

Conference56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period15/07/1820/07/18

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© 2018 Association for Computational Linguistics

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