Annie Zaenen

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 1989–2019

Annie Zaenen wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1989–2019, most of them on Semantic role labeling, Machine translation; often with James Gung, James Pustejovsky, Julia Bonn.

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Ideas Mova took (2)

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measured, no gain — Turn the semantic predicates already stored in prag/data/verbnet.tsv (the frame rows carry has_possession !has_possession transfer cause …, but nothing reads them) into derived state facts for the student: after a transfer frame, the recipient has the theme… (VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer… · result states from VerbNet predicates (possession after transfer, location after motion) remembered as Fact frames: courses 7704/2206→7698/2203; possession…)
measured, no gain — Irrealis for future-having classes (promise, offer, owe): their transfer did not happen yet, so no possession fact is derived. A negative control for I1: «The king promised the miller gold» must not yield «the miller has gold». (VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer… · no states from classes whose predicates say irrealis (promise, offer) — part of I1, dropped with it)

VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer Verbs (2019)
The paper presents VerbNet's revised semantic representations, shown on the 37 classes (810 verbs) of change of possession and transfer of information.
Veridicity annotation in the lexicon? A look at factive adjectives (2013)
A short note on veridicity: whether a sentence commits the author to the truth of an embedded event. Factive adjectives such as "lucky" or "brave" are listed as factive in the lexicon, but the authors show that their factivity depends on more than the adjective and its frame. Roughly 800 adjectives take the…
Translation by Structural Correspondences (1989)
The paper proposes machine translation without a transfer program. The source and target sentences are described by LFG structures at several levels (constituent, functional, semantic), and the translation is a set of correspondence functions between those structures. The functions are written as equations, so the…