University of Colorado at Boulder

Martha Palmer

Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado Boulder

 

Proposition Bank

The original PropBank project, funded by ACE, created a corpus of text annotated with information about basic semantic propositions. Predicate-argument relations were added to the syntactic trees of the Penn Treebank. This resource is now available via LDC.

People There is currently a continuation of this project, funded by NSF and DARPA, that is aimed at creating Parallel PropBanks (the English-Chinese Treebank/PropBank) and also PropBanking other genres, such as Broadcast News, and Broadcast Conversation, at the University of Colorado. PropBank is also being mapped to VerbNet and FrameNet as part of
  • SemLink: Mapping together PropBank/VerbNet/FrameNet.



  • Resources
    • Martha Palmer, Dan Gildea, Paul Kingsbury, The Proposition Bank: A Corpus Annotated with Semantic Roles, Computational Linguistics Journal, 31:1, 2005.
    • Adding Semantic Annotation to the Penn TreeBank. Paul Kingsbury, Martha Palmer, and Mitch Marcus. 2002. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, California.
    • From Treebank to PropBank. Paul Kingsbury and Martha Palmer. 2002. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2002), Las Palmas, Spain.
    • The Necessity of Parsing for Predicate Argument Recognition. Daniel Gildea and Martha Palmer. 2002. In Proceedings of ACL 2002, Philadelphia, PA.
    • 2005 Annotation guidelines for PropBank
    • 2005 Framing guidelines for PropBank
    • Manual for Taggers (6/24/2002)
    • Verb index combining information from the VerbNet, PropBank, and FrameNet projects.
    • To look up a PropBank lemma

    Tools
    • Rosenzweig tagger for PropBank
    • PB Tool, Scott Cotton

    Undertaken as part of NIST's ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) program.