[Corpora-List] Subjunctive mood detection

[Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha]

Hi Taras,

I think this paper from NAACL-09 is relevant, though it may not capture the linguistic subtleties you're interested in:

Andrew B. Goldberg, Nathanael Fillmore, David Andrzejewski, Zhiting Xu, Bryan Gibson and Xiaojin Zhu. May All Your Wishes Come True: A Study of Wishes and How to Recognize Them.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N09/N09-1030.pdf

Diarmuid

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:48:47 +0100
Taras Zagibalov <taras8055 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for any papers regarding Subjunctive mood detection.
> Is there any way to find phrases describing unreal but desirable situations
> (like "I wish you were here")? The problem is that it's not possible to do
> with key words (e.g. word "wish" might be used in "I wish good luck to you"
> which is not what I am looking for). Modal verbs are not good indicators
> either as they describe probability / possibility of something rather than
> what is absent but desirable: "I may/might/can go" vs "I wish I went" or "I
> wish I could go". It looks like some grammar / patterns may be more reliable
> than key-words.
> Any suggestions and ideas are appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> Taras Zagibalov
> 
> University of Sussex
> 


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Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha  <do242 at cam.ac.uk>
Research Associate
Natural Language and Information Processing Group
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

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