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The aim of this paper is to propose a method of simulating - in a syntactico-semantic parser - the behaviour of semantic roles in case of a language that has no resources such as VerbNet of FrameNet, but has relatively rich morphosyntax (here: Polish). We argue that using an approximation of semantic roles derived from syntactic (grammatical functions) and morphosyntactic (grammatical cases) features of arguments may be beneficial for applications such as text entailment.
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Jaworski, W., Przepiórkowski, A. (2014). Syntactic Approximation of Semantic Roles. In: Przepiórkowski, A., Ogrodniczuk, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. NLP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8686. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10888-9_20
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