PropBanks and semantic representations: what we have, what we want and what we can do
Abstract
In this paper, we detail the methodology used to construct the Porttinari-base Propbank, a gold-standard Propbank with over 45,000 arguments annotated on the syntactic dependencies of the Porttinari-base treebank. We present the underlying challenges and the solutions adopted in the annotation of arguments and predicates, and report the results of an inter-annotator agreement study. Our goal is twofold: to present the Porttinari-base Propbank as a resource for NLP and, secondarily, to provoke reflections on the dialogues between NLP and linguistic theories.
Copyright (c) 2025 Cláudia Freitas, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo
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