Adverbs, Surprisingly

Dmitry Nikolaev; Collin F. Baker; Miriam R. L. Petruck; Sebastian Padó

doi:10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.44

Adverbs, Surprisingly

Dmitry Nikolaev
, Collin F. Baker
, Miriam R. L. Petruck
, Sebastian Padó

Linguistics and English Language (L5)

University of Stuttgart

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Abstract

This paper begins with the premise that adverbs are neglected in computational linguistics. This view derives from two analyses: a literature review and a novel adverb dataset to probe a state-of-the-art language model, thereby uncovering systematic gaps in accounts for adverb meaning. We suggest that using Frame Semantics for characterizing word meaning, as in FrameNet, provides a promising approach to adverb analysis, given its ability to describe ambiguity, semantic roles, and null instantiation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)
Place of Publication	Toronto, Canada
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	512
Number of pages	526
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.44
Publication status	Published - Jul 2023
Event	The 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023) - Toronto, Canada Duration: 13 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023

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Conference	The 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	13/07/23 → 14/07/23
Internet address	https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023

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Nikolaev, D, Baker, CF, Petruck, MRL & Padó, S 2023, Adverbs, Surprisingly. in Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023). Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, pp. 512, The 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), Toronto, Canada, 13/07/23. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.44

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