VERB SENSE DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON THESAURUS OF PREDICATE-ARGUMENT STRUCTURE - An Evaluation of Thesaurus of Predicate-argument Structure for Japanese Verbs

Koichi Takeuchi, Suguru Tsuchiyama, Masato Moriya, Yuuki Moriyasu, Koichi Satoh

2011

Abstract

This paper presents a system for word sense disambiguation based on a manually constructed thesaurus of predicate-argument structure, which is an ontology on the linguistic side providing essential information for mapping form texts to verb concepts. This system can be effective for word sense disambiguation even though the target word sense system is different from the thesaurus. We applied the proposed word sense disambiguation system to the test corpus of SemEval-2010 Japanese tasks. Experimental results showed that the thesaurus-based disambiguation system outperformed a CRFs-based system in recall rates of verb sense disambiguation. From the results of verb sense disambiguation, we clarified that the abstracted verb classes (709 types) in our proposed system were effective sets for verb sense disambiguation.

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Takeuchi K., Tsuchiyama S., Moriya M., Moriyasu Y. and Satoh K. (2011). VERB SENSE DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON THESAURUS OF PREDICATE-ARGUMENT STRUCTURE - An Evaluation of Thesaurus of Predicate-argument Structure for Japanese Verbs . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-80-5, pages 208-213. DOI: 10.5220/0003639802080213


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@conference{keod11,
author={Koichi Takeuchi and Suguru Tsuchiyama and Masato Moriya and Yuuki Moriyasu and Koichi Satoh},
title={VERB SENSE DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON THESAURUS OF PREDICATE-ARGUMENT STRUCTURE - An Evaluation of Thesaurus of Predicate-argument Structure for Japanese Verbs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={208-213},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003639802080213},
isbn={978-989-8425-80-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2011)
TI - VERB SENSE DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON THESAURUS OF PREDICATE-ARGUMENT STRUCTURE - An Evaluation of Thesaurus of Predicate-argument Structure for Japanese Verbs
SN - 978-989-8425-80-5
AU - Takeuchi K.
AU - Tsuchiyama S.
AU - Moriya M.
AU - Moriyasu Y.
AU - Satoh K.
PY - 2011
SP - 208
EP - 213
DO - 10.5220/0003639802080213