TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic Animacy Classification
AU - Bowman, Samuel R.
AU - Chopra, Harshit
N1 - Funding Information:
We are indebted to Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Jason Grafmiller, who first suggested we model this corpus, and to Chris Manning and our reviewers for valuable advice.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We introduce the automatic annotation of noun phrases in parsed sentences with tags from a fine-grained semantic animacy hierarchy. This information is of interest within lexical semantics and has potential value as a feature in several NLP tasks. We train a discriminative classifier on an annotated corpus of spoken English, with features capturing each noun phrase's constituent words, its internal structure, and its syntactic relations with other key words in the sentence. Only the first two of these three feature sets have a substantial impact on performance, but the resulting model is able to fairly accurately classify new data from that corpus, and shows promise for binary animacy classification and for use on automatically parsed text.
AB - We introduce the automatic annotation of noun phrases in parsed sentences with tags from a fine-grained semantic animacy hierarchy. This information is of interest within lexical semantics and has potential value as a feature in several NLP tasks. We train a discriminative classifier on an annotated corpus of spoken English, with features capturing each noun phrase's constituent words, its internal structure, and its syntactic relations with other key words in the sentence. Only the first two of these three feature sets have a substantial impact on performance, but the resulting model is able to fairly accurately classify new data from that corpus, and shows promise for binary animacy classification and for use on automatically parsed text.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84926392476
T3 - NAACL-HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
SP - 7
EP - 10
BT - NAACL-HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A2 - Levitan, Rivka
A2 - Ott, Myle
A2 - Levy, Roger
A2 - Nenkova, Ani
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012
Y2 - 3 June 2012 through 8 June 2012
ER -