Georgiana Puşcaşu


2008

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Annotation of WordNet Verbs with TimeML Event Classes
Georgiana Puşcaşu | Verginica Barbu Mititelu
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

This paper reports on the annotation of all English verbs included in WordNet 2.0 with TimeML event classes. Two annotators assign each verb present in WordNet the most relevant event class capturing most of that verb’s meanings. At the end of the annotation process, inter-annotator agreement is measured using kappa statistics, yielding a kappa value of 0.87. The cases of disagreement between the two independent annotations are clarified by obtaining a third, and in some cases, a fourth opinion, and finally each of the 11,306 WordNet verbs is mapped to a unique event class. The resulted annotation is then employed to automatically assign the corresponding class to each occurrence of a finite or non-finite verb in a given text. The evaluation performed on TimeBank reveals an F-measure of 86.43% achieved for the identification of verbal events, and an accuracy of 85.25% in the task of classifying them into TimeML event classes.

2007

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WVALI: Temporal Relation Identification by Syntactico-Semantic Analysis
Georgiana Puşcaşu
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007)

2006

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If “it” were “then”, then when was “it”? Establishing the anaphoric role of “then”
Georgiana Puşcaşu | Ruslan Mitkov
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

The adverb "then" is among the most frequent Englishtemporal adverbs, being also capable of filling a variety of semantic roles. The identification of anaphoric usages of "then"is important for temporal expression resolution, while thetemporal relationship usage is important for event ordering. Given that previous work has not tackled the identification and temporal resolution of anaphoric "then", this paper presents a machine learning approach for setting apart anaphoric usages and a rule-based normaliser that resolves it with respect to an antecedent. The performance of the two modules is evaluated. The present paper also describes the construction of an annotated corpus and the subsequent derivation of training data required by the machine learning module.

2004

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A Framework for Temporal Resolution
Georgiana Puşcaşu
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)