Chinese Proposition Bank

People:

Martha Palmer, Nianwen Xue, Zixin Jiang, Meiyu Chang, Vicky Lai, Hua Zhong, Helen Chen

Publications:

• Nianwen Xue. 2008. Labeling Chinese predicates with semantic roles. Computational Linguistics, 34(2):225-255. [Available here]

• Nianwen Xue. 2006. A Chinese lexicon of roles and senses. Journal of Language Resources, 40(3-4):395-403,.

• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. Adding semantic roles to the Chinese Treebank. To appear in Natural Language Engineering.

• Vicky Lai, Meiyu Chang,Cecily Duffield, Jena D. Hwang, Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2007. Defining a Methodology for Mapping Chinese & English Sense Inventories. In Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007. Hong Kong, China.

• Nianwen Xue. 2006. Semantic Role Labeling of nominalized predicates in Chinese, in Proceedings of HTL-NAACL 2006. New York City. pdf

• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2005. Automatic Semantic Role Labeling for Chinese Verbs, in Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf
• Handling Dislocated and Discontinuous Constituents in Chinese Semantic Role Labeling. Nianwen Xue. 2004. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, in conjunction with IJNLP 2004, Hainan Island, China. pdf .
• Annotating Propositions in the Penn Chinese Treebank. Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2003. In Proceedings of the Second Sighan Workshop, Sapporo, Japan. pdf .
• Automatic Predicate Argument Structure Analysis of the Penn Chinese Treebank. Nianwen Xue and Seth Kulick. 2003. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. pdf

Resources:

• Annotation Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Proposition Bank (1st Draft). Nianwen Xue pdf
• Here is a list of Frame files for the verbs (Incomplete)

Supported by ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) program, NSF, and DARPA GALE.