Harvesting Multilingual Information for Frame Semantics
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TITLE: Harvesting Multilingual Information for Frame Semantics
SPEAKER: Roberto Basili- Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production - AI Research Group - University of Roma, Tor Vergata
DATE: May 21, 2009 at 15:00 PM
LOCATION: Via Nomentana 56, 00161, Roma, Italy
ABSTRACT:
Several limitations have been noticed when resources related to Framenet have to be applied to multilingual tasks. In fact, most of its resources are strictly oriented to English, and, more importantly, even the current coverage over English is limited in view of its uses in real applications. Research carried out in the AI labs of the University of Roma, Tor Vergata has focused on the use of distributional models of frame semantics able to provide flexible solutions to the above problems. The seminar will survey the research on three different tasks: predicate induction, semantic transfer of role information across language pairs and automatic argument classification.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Since May 2003 Roberto Basili is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Roma, Tor Vergata and member of the Artificial Intelligence group at Tor Vergata (ART) since 1991. His current research is on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, knowledge representation and applications such as Information Retrieval and Semantic Web. He is author of more than 60 publications in Journals, International and National Conferences.
CONTACT: Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo - alfio.gliozzo@istc.cnr.it
