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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND HINDI VERB SEMANTICSAuthors: Kumar Sanjeev,Rafiya Begum,Radhika Mamidi Conference: LSI Platinum Jubilee Conference Date: 2005-12-06 Report no: IIIT/TR/2005/29 AbstractThis paper follows the prevailing assumption in current approaches that the rules linking arguments to syntactic positions are universal. By this, we mean that verbs with similar lexical semantic features across languages map onto a similar set of basic syntactic structures. However, recent works on cross-linguistic study of verb frames have shown different syntactic structures for the verbs with same lexical semantics [Levin 1998]. Our study explores syntactic and semantic variation while mapping English verbs onto Hindi verbs. We will explore the cause for such variations by looking at the semantic complexities of the verbs. This preliminary study will help us in structuring lexicon. It will also help in text information processing tasks like machine translation, information extraction, etc. Full paper: pdf Centre for Language Technologies Research Centre |
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