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title = "Adverbs, Surprisingly",
author = "Nikolaev, Dmitry and
Baker, Collin and
Petruck, Miriam R. L. and
Pad{\'o}, Sebastian",
editor = "Palmer, Alexis and
Camacho-collados, Jose",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.44",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.44",
pages = "512--526",
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.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Adverbs, Surprisingly
%A Nikolaev, Dmitry
%A Baker, Collin
%A Petruck, Miriam R. L.
%A Padó, Sebastian
%Y Palmer, Alexis
%Y Camacho-collados, Jose
%S Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)
%D 2023
%8 July
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Markdown (Informal)
[Adverbs, Surprisingly](https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.44) (Nikolaev et al., *SEM 2023)
ACL
- Dmitry Nikolaev, Collin Baker, Miriam R. L. Petruck, and Sebastian Padó. 2023. Adverbs, Surprisingly. In Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), pages 512–526, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.