[Corpora-List] Active vs Passive voice

Tue Sep 20 08:42:39 UTC 2011

We would also be interested in tools to detect active vs. passive voice, e.g. for opinion mining (‘A criticised B’, vs. ‘A was criticised by B’). 

However, as we work on many different languages and not only on the default language, we would be particularly interested in tools and methods for detecting the voice *without* the use of parsers. 

My question is thus: are there any shallow processing tools or patterns (for various languages) that can detect voice?

Thanks a lot.

Greetings,

Ralf

Ralf Steinberger

European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)

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Can anyone point me to resources on active vs. passive voice detection?

There seem to be simple patterns which would detect many passives (noun – be - past participle or something like that), but I’m wondering if there’s any work done (or better yet source code available!) on more general detection?

Thanks

Iain

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