Meaning and Semantic Roles in CzEngClass Lexicon

Abstract

This paper focuses on Semantic Roles, an important component of studies in lexical semantics, as they are captured as part of a bilingual (Czech-English) synonym lexicon called CzEngClass. This lexicon builds upon the existing valency lexicons included within the framework of the annotation of the various Prague Dependency Treebanks. The present analysis of Semantic Roles is being approached from the Functional Generative Description point of view and supported by the textual evidence taken specifically from the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank.

A model for representing the semantics of MWEs: From lexical semantics to the semantic annotation of complex predicates

“…A few years later, the Brandeis Semantic Ontology (BSO) seeks to extend the English SIMPLE lexicon (Pustejovsky et al, 2006 ). At the syntax-semantics interface, SynSemClass (Urešová et al, 2018a , b ), is a bilingual synonym lexicon organized on the basis of contextually based synonymy and valency of verbs in a bilingual setting; at the heart of the bilingual lexicon lays the analysis of semantic “equivalence” (synonymy or near synonymy) of verb senses, and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources. In this respect, semantic MWE-aware lexicons, i.e., WordNet (Fellbaum, 1998 ), Verbnet (Kipper et al, 2008 ), SAID (Kuiper et al, 2003 ), and WikiMwe (Hartmann et al, 2012 ) give an account of various types of MWEs—yet they are solely focused on their semantic representation overlooking other aspects.…”