In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the Inspector application
framework and to create an application beneficial to the natural language
processing community, a VerbNet-Cyc mapping system has been created called
VxC.
VxC automatically generates a set of matches between Cyc's
verbSemTrans predicates and VerbNet's members and frames.
The method it operates under is a form of constraint satisfaction.
The Inspector's verb-frame pair option is used to iterate through each
frame a member can participate in for a given class. Each verb-frame pair
is compared to each Cyc verbSemTrans rule and if this comparison
satisfies all the constraints then the two are assumed to be good match.
In order to gauge the performance of possible constraints, a manual mapping
was created that supplements VxC's execution. It provides
for a detailed analysis of the mapping process to be generated for analysis.
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The VxC application can be run with individual constraints or with
any combination thereof. All constraints implemented
in the application are those which showed promising results when applied to
the VerbNet and Cyc data. VxC also makes it easy to experiment with
new constraints for further research into the area.
Complete source code and Javadoc files
Download - also includes README, example
compile and run scripts, and supporting files. Usage provided for convenience online
here.
Complete online Javadoc documentation
Javadoc Documentation - provided here
for convenience. As this is a research application, private members are
included as well.
Results Of VxC
Results - Summarizes the accuracy of each
constraint and contains the final automatic mapping generated by VxC.
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