[Corpora-List] Active vs Passive voice

[Irina Temnikova]

The only approaches I'm aware of are in the context of text simplification
systems. I am aware only of two such systems and only of English/Portuguese.
One is Canning's part of the PSET system (for English newspaper articles),
which treats re-writing only agentive passive phrases into active ones (as
they are the only ones which are considered to be able to be identified):

Canning, Y. (2002) Syntactic Simplification of Text. PhD. Theses, University
of Sunderland.

And the other one is Gasperin et al., 2009 system (newspaper articles for
Brasilian Portuguese)

Gasperin,  C.;  Maziero,  E.;  Specia,  L.;  Pardo,  T.S.P.;  Aluisio,
S.M.  (2009b).  Natural  language processing for social inclusion: a text
simplification architecture for different literacy levels. XXXVI
Seminário  Integrado  de  Software  e  Hardware  (SEMISH­2009),  pp.
387­401.  Bento  Gonçalves, Brazil.
Gasperin,  C.;  Specia,  L.;  Pereira,  T.;  Aluisio,  S.M.  (2009a).
Learning When to Simplify Sentences for  Natural  Text  Simplification.
Encontro  Nacional  de  Inteligência  Artificial  (ENIA­2009),  pp.
809­818. Bento Gonçalves, Brazil.

As far as I know only passive phrases with explicit markers are treated. You
can have a look at the list of rules they used. For the Brasilian Portuguese
you can contact Dr. Lucia Specia (l.specia at wlv.ac.uk).

Regards,

Irina

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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:19:04 +0100
From: "iain" <iain at idcl.co.uk>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Active vs Passive voice
To: "Corpora List" <corpora at uib.no>

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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