Weakly Supervised Learning of Presupposition Relations between Verbs

Presupposition relations between verbs are not very well covered in existing lexical semantic resources. We propose a weakly supervised algorithm for learning presupposition relations between verbs that distinguishes five semantic relations: presupposition, entailment, temporal inclusion, antonymy and other/no relation. We start with a number of seed verb pairs selected manually for each semantic relation and classify unseen verb pairs. Our algorithm achieves an overall accuracy of 36% for type-based classification.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Galina Tremper
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Computational Linguistics, Lexical Semantic Resources, Presupposition Relations, Semantic Relation