Applying Linguistic Principles to PropBank Annotation Projection Between Languages

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dic.2025.a963329" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dic.2025.a963329</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dic.2025.a963329" target="_blank" >10.1353/dic.2025.a963329</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Applying Linguistic Principles to PropBank Annotation Projection Between Languages

Original language description

Although semantic role labeling based on a pre-existing valency lexicon is useful in many downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks, computational versions of these types of lexicons are not available in most languages. For parallel sentences where the source language already has automatic or manual lexical (SRL) annotation, the annotations can be transferred onto the target language text. The Universal PropBanks (UP2.0) system uses unsupervised word alignments, filtering heuristics, and bootstrapping to automatically project English SRL annotations to twenty-three languages. Since this approach uses English-based semantic representations to create annotations in other languages, it may miss language-specific nuances. We provide a case study using English PropBank representations and the Russian PropBank. We evaluate the UP2.0 projection of English annotations onto sentences that have been annotated manually with Russian PropBank, assessing discrepancies. Based on our error analysis and PropBank annotation guidelines, we identify language-specific and language-independent principles that may be violated by the automatic projection and implement these as post-processing filters to improve the precision of the automatic annotation projection. © 2025 Dictionary Society of North America. All rights reserved.

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Dictionaries

ISSN

0197-6745

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Volume of the periodical

46

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

165-180

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105010070124