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"text": "Extracting semantic relations from text is an important step towards understanding the meaning of text. Many applications that use no semantics, or only shallow semantics, could benefit by having available more text semantics. Recently, there is a growing interest in text semantics (M\u00e0rquez et al., 2008; Davidov and Rappoport, 2008) .",
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"text": "An important semantic relation for many applications is the MANNER relation. Broadly speaking, MANNER encodes the mode, style, way or fashion in which something is done or happened. For example, quick delivery encodes a MANNER relation, since quick is the manner in which the delivery happened.",
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"text": "An application of MANNER detection is Question Answering, where many how questions refer to this particular relation. Consider for example the question How did the President communicate his mes-sage?, and the text Through his spokesman, Obama sent a strong message [. . . ] . To answer such questions, it is useful to identify first the MANNER relations in text.",
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"text": "Formally, MANNER is represented as MNR(x, y), and it should be read x is the manner in which y happened. In addition, DOMAIN(MNR) and RANGE(MNR) are the sets of sorts of concepts that can be part of the first and second argument. RANGE(MNR), namely y, is restricted to situations, which are defined as anything that happens at a time and place. Situations include events and states and can be expressed by verbs or nouns, e.g., conference, race, mix and grow. DOMAIN(MNR), namely x, is restricted to qualities (ql), non temporal abstract objects (ntao) and states (st). Qualities represent characteristics that can be assigned to other concepts, such as slowly and abruptly. Non temporal abstract objects are intangible entities. They are somehow product of human reasoning and are not palpable. They do not encode periods or points of time, such as week, or yesterday. For example, odor, disease, and mile are ntao; book and car are not because they are tangible. Unlike events, states are situations that do not imply a change in the concepts involved. For example, standing there or holding hands are states; whereas walking to the park and pinching him are events. For more details about these semantic classes, refer to (Helbig, 2005) .",
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"text": "These semantic restrictions on MANNER come after studying previous definitions and manual examination of hundreds of examples. Their use and benefits are described in Section 4. Asking how does not identify MANNER in many cases. For example, given John broke the window [with a hammer], the question how did John break the window? can be answered by with the hammer, and yet the hammer is not the MANNER but the IN A way of solving this ambiguity is by prioritizing the semantic relations among the possible candidates for a given pair of concepts. For example, if both INSTRUMENT and MANNER are possible, the former is extracted. In a similar fashion, AT-LOCATION and AT-TIME could have higher priority than MANNER. This idea has one big disadvantage: the correct detection of MANNER relies on the detection of several other relations, a problem which has proven difficult and thus would unnecessarily introduce errors.",
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