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Martha Palmer

21 paper cards in Mova's library · 1997–2023

Martha Palmer wrote 21 of the papers Mova reads, in 1997–2023, most of them on Semantic role labeling, Machine translation, Treebanks; often with Julia Bonn, Claire Bonial, James Pustejovsky.

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Topics: Semantic role labeling 10 · Machine translation 7 · Treebanks 4 · Discourse analysis 2 · Coreference resolution 2 · Dependency parsing 2 · Named entity recognition 1 · Speech act theory 1

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Papers

  1. Dependency Dialogue Acts — Annotation Scheme and Case Study (2023)
    Dependency Dialogue Acts (DDA) is an annotation scheme for multi-party, multi-threaded talk (classroom group work, chat).
  2. Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility (2023)
    A reference paper that lists how AMR structures map onto UMR, the typologically motivated successor to AMR.
  3. UMR Annotation of Multiword Expressions (2023)
    This is a guideline paper. It runs no experiment and reports no counts. UMR, which is based on AMR, maps words to concepts. The authors define a multiword expression (MWE) operationally: several words that together form one concept. They sort MWEs into three groups. Fixed MWEs are unmodifiable word sequences, such as…
  4. 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…
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Unsupervised AMR-Dependency Parse Alignment (2017)
    The paper aligns AMR concepts to the nodes of an English dependency tree, not to spans of words as earlier aligners did.
  8. A Corpus of Preposition Supersenses (2016)
    The paper presents the first English corpus in which every preposition token is annotated with a hierarchical supersense, and each token is annotated twice to measure agreement.
  9. Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation (2016)
    The paper describes how PropBank's guidelines for light verb constructions (make an offer, take a bath, have a nap, give a kiss) were revised.
  10. A Hierarchy with, of, and for Preposition Supersenses (2015)
    English prepositions are frequent and very polysemous, and in many uses they mark a role rather than a place or time.
  11. PropBank: Semantics of New Predicate Types (2014)
    PropBank annotated verbs only. This paper describes how it was extended to nouns, adjectives and complex predicates such as light verb constructions (make an offer). Over 2,800 noun rolesets were added to the lexicon, many taken from NomBank and extended with WordNet classes for events and states. For a light verb…
  12. SemLink+: FrameNet, VerbNet and Event Ontologies (2014)
    A short review of SemLink, the set of mappings between PropBank, VerbNet, FrameNet and OntoNotes sense groupings, and of the event ontology the authors are building on top of it.
  13. Not an Interlingua, But Close: Comparison of English AMRs to Chinese and Czech (2014)
    The authors take 100 English sentences that already have AMR graphs, translate them into Chinese and Czech, and write AMR graphs for the translations.
  14. Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking (2013)
    The paper presents Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), a rooted, labelled graph for the meaning of whole sentences, meant to be easy for people to read and for programs to traverse.
  15. CoNLL-2011 Shared Task: Modeling Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes (2011)
    The paper describes the CoNLL-2011 shared task on general coreference in OntoNotes. OntoNotes links identical reference (IDENT) for pronouns, names and definite NPs, and for events, not only NPs or a fixed set of entity types. Appositives are tagged separately as attributes. Singletons are not annotated, so mention…
  16. The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles (2005)
    PropBank adds predicate-argument labels to the Penn Treebank (Wall Street Journal part): numbered roles Arg0 to Arg5 that are defined per verb sense, plus adjunct tags (ArgM with function types such as temporal, locative, manner).
  17. Machine Translation Using Probabilistic Synchronous Dependency Insertion Grammars (2005)
    The paper proposes a synchronous dependency insertion grammar (SDIG), a version of synchronous grammar defined on dependency trees.
  18. Merging PropBank, NomBank, TimeBank, Penn Discourse Treebank and Coreference (2005)
    Separate annotation projects each cover one part of semantics: PropBank and NomBank (predicate-argument structure of verbs and nouns), TimeBank (events, times and their links), the Penn Discourse Treebank (connectives as predicates), and Essex coreference (MATE scheme).
  19. From TreeBank to PropBank (2002)
    The paper describes the first stage of PropBank, which adds predicate-argument labels to the verb instances of the Penn Treebank.
  20. Semantic Tagging for the Penn Treebank (2000)
    The paper describes a pilot in which running Penn Treebank text is tagged with WordNet senses, following the method of the SENSEVAL exercise.
  21. Enriching lexical transfer with cross-linguistic semantic features or how to do interlingua without interlingua (1997)
    The paper proposes lexico-structural transfer as an alternative to an interlingua. The source and target are dependency trees in Meaning-Text Theory's deep syntactic level, and transfer rules relate lexemes together with their syntax. The test case is motion verbs: English "swim across the lake" becomes French…

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