semantic roles for LFG grammar engineering

[Valia Kordoni]

Dear Adam,

you should definitely take a look at the following work of Miriam Butt

"The Development of Linking Theory in LFG"

It is available at the publications section of her web page:
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/

It is an extensive handout which was put together for a talk of Miriam
within a Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Constraint-Based Theories,
organized by me at ESSLLI99, Utrecht (the same one which Stefan was
referring to in an earlier message). It provides a fantastic overview of
the development of LFG's linking theory.

Best regards,
Valia

On Sun, February 2, 2014 22:45, Adam Przepiorkowski wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> [Apologies for cross-posting.]
>
> In the context of enriching the Polish LFG grammar with semantic
> representation, we are looking for a set of semantic roles (Agent,
> Patient, Beneficiary, etc.) that could be used to mark arguments (and
> possibly adjuncts) of verbs and other predicates.  This set should be
> exhaustive in the sense that it should be possible to assign – more or
> less deterministically – a semantic role to any argument (and possibly
> adjunct) of any predicate.  For this reason the standard – in LFG
> textbooks – sets of some 7 semantic roles do not seem sufficient.
> Instead, we are looking at larger repertoires proposed in VerbNet, in
> FrameNet and in John W. Sowa's work on Knowledge Representation.
>
> We don't have any strong views about any particular set of semantic
> roles, as long as it is exhaustive and applicable to real texts (as
> opposed to being merely theoretically interesting).  Has anybody in the
> LFG community faced a similar task?  If so, what set of semantic roles
> would you recommend?  At the moment, we are wavering between VerbNet and
> Sowa's system, both being more manageable than numerous roles offered
> in FrameNet, but we are open to other solutions.
>
> Many thanks, best regards,
>
> Adam P.
>
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