James Gung

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2019–2022

James Gung wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2019–2022, most of them on Semantic role labeling; often with Martha Palmer, Julia Bonn, Kathryn Conger.

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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)

PropBank Comes of Age—Larger, Smarter, and more Diverse (2022)
A twenty-year review of PropBank. Rolesets are coarse senses with numbered arguments, and every role now also carries a function tag (PAG proto-agent, PPT proto-patient, GOL goal, LOC, TMP…) after Dowty. Since the 2017 unification, one roleset covers etymologically related verbs, nouns, adjectives, light-verb…
SemLink 2.0: Chasing Lexical Resources (2021)
SemLink maps between PropBank rolesets and arguments, VerbNet classes and thematic roles, FrameNet frames and frame elements, and OntoNotes sense groups, and holds a corpus of verb instances tagged in all of them.
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.