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"text": "Lexical knowledge acquisition plays an important role in corpus-based NLP. Knowledge of verb selectional preferences and verb subcategorization frames (SFs) can be extracted from corpora for use in various NLP tasks. However, knowledge of SFs is often not fine-grained enough to distinguish various verbs and the kinds of arguments that they can select. We consider a difficult task in lexical knowledge acquisition: that of finding the underlying argument structure which can be used to relate the observed list of SFs of a particular verb. The task involves identifying the roles assigned by the verb to its arguments. Consider the following verbs, each occuring with intransitive and transitive SFs 1 .",
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"text": "Each of the verbs above occurs with both the intransitive and transitive SFs. However, the verbs differ in their underlying argument structure. Each verb assigns a different role to their arguments in the two subcategorization possibilities. For each verb above, the following lists the roles assigned to each of the noun phrase arguments in the SFs permitted for the verb. This information can be used for extracting appropriate information about the relationships between the verb and its arguments. Our task is to identify the transitive and intransitive usage of a particular verb as being related via this notion of argument structure. This is called the argument structure classification of the verb. In the remainder of this paper we will look at the problem of placing verbs into such classes automatically.",
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"text": "We create a probabilistic classifier that can automatically classify a set of verbs into argument structure classes with a reasonable error rate. We use the hypothesis introduced by that although a verb in a particular class can occur in all of the syntactic contexts as verbs from other classes the statistical distributions can be distinguished. In other words, verbs from certain classes will be more likely to occur in some syntactic contexts than others. We identify features that pick out the verb occurences in these contexts. By using these features, we will attempt to determine the classification of those verbs. In the previous section we saw that we sometimes have noun-phrase arguments (NP causer ) as being a causer of the action denoted by the verb. For example, show that a classifier can exploit these causativity facts to improve classifiction.",
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"text": "In general, the problem of identifying subcategorization frames is to distinguish between arguments and adjuncts among the constituents modifying a verb. For example, in \"John saw Mary yesterday at the station\", only \"John\" and \"Mary\" are required arguments while the other constituents are optional (adjuncts). 3 The problem of SF identification using statistical methods has had a rich discussion in the literature (Ushioda et al., 1993; Manning, 1993; Briscoe and Carroll, 1997; Brent, 1994) (also see the refences cited in (Sarkar and Zeman, 2000) ). In this paper, we use the method of hypothesis testing to discover the SF for a given verb (Brent, 1994) . Along with the techniques given in these papers, (Sarkar and Zeman, 2000; Korhonen et al., 2000) also discuss other methods for hypothesis testing such the use of the t-score statistic and the likelihood ratio test. After experimenting with all three of these methods we selected the likelihood ratio test because it performed with higher accuracy on a small set of hand-annotated instances. We use the determination of the verb's SF as an input to our argument structure classifier (see Section 4).",
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