Proposition Bank

Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) at the University of Pennsylvania

People:

• PIs: Martha Palmer, Mitch Marcus
  
• Staff: Scott Cotton, Kate Forbes, Daniel Gildea, Paul Kingsbury, Joseph Rosenzweig
  
• Adjudicators: Ann Bies, Betsy Klipple
  
• Annotators

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.
• 2002 Annotation guidelines for PropBank
• 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 (for example, "acquire").
• Site visit agenda for October 26, 2001.
• Proposition Bank: a resource of predicate-argument relations (ACE PI Meeting Presentation, February 26, 2002). (ppt)

Tools:

• Rosenzweig tagger for PropBank
• PB Tool, Scott Cotton

Undertaken as part of NIST's ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) program. Other ACE participants include:

• New York University
• BBN
• MITRE