Recent Work

Recent publications describing the development, semantic representations and applications of VerbNet. Titles link to the publisher or to an open-access copy where one is available.

• 2018
  Brown, Susan W.; Pustejovsky, James; Zaenen, Annie; Palmer, Martha.

  Integrating Generative Lexicon Event Structures into VerbNet

  In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki, Japan.
• 2017
  Palmer, Martha; Gung, James; Bonial, Claire; Choi, Jinho; Hargraves, Orin; Palmer, Derek; Stowe, Kevin.

  The Pitfalls of Shortcuts: Tales from the word sense tagging trenches

  Essays in Lexical Semantics and Computational Lexicography – In Honor of Adam Kilgarriff. M. Diab, A. Villavicencio, M. Apidianaki, V. Kordoni, A. Korhonen, P. Nakov, M. Stevenson (editors). Springer series Text, Speech and Language Technology. Springer.
• 2017
  Palmer, Martha; Bonial, Claire; Hwang, Jena D.

  VerbNet: Capturing English verb behavior, meaning and usage

  The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science, ed. Susan Chipman. Oxford University Press.
• 2017
  Green, Meredith; Hargraves, Orin; Bonial, Claire; Chen, Jinying; Clark, Lyndsie; Palmer, Martha.

  VerbNet/OntoNotes-based sense annotation

  In The Handbook of Linguistic Annotations, ed. James Pustejovsky and Nancy Ide. Springer.
• 2016
  Pustejovsky, James; Palmer, Martha; Zaenen, Annie; Brown, Susan W.

  Integrating VerbNet and GL Predicative Structures

  Interoperability for Semantic Annotation (ISA-12) with LREC-2016. Portorož, Slovenia.
• 2013
  Bonial, Claire; Hargraves, Orin; Palmer, Martha.

  Expanding VerbNet with Sketch Engine

  In Proceedings of the Generative Lexicon Conference (GenLex-13). Pisa, Italy.
• 2012
  Feeley, Weston; Bonial, Claire; Palmer, Martha.

  Evaluating the coverage of VerbNet

  In Proceedings of ISA-8: Eighth Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. Pisa, Italy.
• 2011
  Bonial, Claire; Brown, Susan W.; Corvey, William; Palmer, Martha; Petukhova, Volha; Bunt, Harry.

  An Exploratory Comparison of Thematic Roles in VerbNet and LIRICS

  In Proceedings of the Sixth Joint ISO-ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-6), pp. 39–44.