semantic roles for LFG grammar engineering

[Annie Zaenen]

Hi Adam,

There is an iso standard in the making about semantic roles. I dont know how much influence these standards have but they are at least looked over by people of various persuasions and tend to cater to the nlp community rather than to linguists. I ll see whether there is a distributionable version around. 

Annie   

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> On Feb 3, 2014, at 4:48, Stefan Müller <Stefan.Mueller at FU-BERLIN.DE> wrote:
> 
> Dear Adam,
> 
> I remember a workshop "Lexical semantics and linking in constraint-based
> theories" in Utrecht in 1999 where Dan Flickinger gave a talk arguing
> for using ARG1, ARG2, ARG3.
> 
> This saves you all the trouble with the traditional roles and basically
> results in a system that is similar to what Dowty suggested.
> 
> Otherwise you would end up calling the subject of "see" an experiencer
> and wondering why passives of "see" are possible even though passive is
> usually described as the suppression of the agent.
> 
> The DELPH-IN project uses ARG1-ARGn and CoreGram too.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
>        Stefan
> 
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