Are Annotators' Word-Sense Disambiguation Decisions Affected by Textual Entailment between Lexicon Glosses?
Abstract
We describe an annotation experiment com- bining topics from lexicography and Word Sense Disam- biguation. It involves a lexicon ( Pattern Dictionary of En- glish Verbs, PDEV ), an existing data set ( VPS-GradeUp ), and an unpublished data set ( RTE in PDEV Implicatures ).
The aim of the experiment was twofold: a pilot annota- tion of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) on PDEV implicatures (lexicon glosses) on the one hand, and, on the other hand, an analysis of the effect of Textual Entail- ment between lexicon glosses on annotators' Word-Sense- Disambiguation decisions, compared to other predictors, such as finiteness of the target verb, the explicit presence of its relevant arguments, and the semantic distance be- tween corresponding syntactic arguments in two different patterns (dictionary senses).