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David Yi
David Yi

Reputation: 401

Use VerbNet, NLTK to parse verbs

I want to identify the verbs used in sentences and determine whether the verb is being used with a literal or figurative meaning. I think I should use VerbNet and NLTK. But, I have never used VerbNet. How do I start?

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Kiran Yallabandi
Kiran Yallabandi

Reputation: 2584

Well I am not sure regarding the first part of the question. Perhaps word sense disambiguation might help you here. Regarding the second part you must first download the verbnet corpus,use this :>>>import nltk >>>nltk.download(). Then you can refer to this link for a primer on the methods. The basic structure and organisation of verbnet can be read here and here

The verb net is basically divided into 'verb classes' which contain the verbs which have similar syntactic and semantic properties. So a given verb say 'accept' can be used in many ways.All those variations are captured by the following Verb net classes : 'approve-77', 'characterize-29.2-1-1', 'obtain-13.5.2'.The full index of verb net classes can be found here.

For more info refer to this link and go to the subsection 'verbnet' in section 1.12. Also the Verbnet is also integrated with Wordnet. The means you can access a Verb net 'class' corresponding to the Wordnet 'word sense '. Please refer to the earlier links for more information.

Hope this helps

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