Light Verb Constructions

Yee Fan Tan, Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan
1 May, 2004
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Project Duration: May 2004 - July 2005.

A light verb construction (LVC) is a verb–complement pair in which the verb has little lexical meaning and much of the semantic content of the construction is obtained from the complement. Examples of LVCs are “make a decision” and “give a presentation”, and these pose challenges for natural language processing and understanding. In this project, we investigate methods to identify LVCs from a corpus, as well as recognizing linguistic features of LVCs.

LVC NLP CL Computational Linguistics
Yee Fan Tan
Doctoral Alumnus (Nov ‘11). Thesis: Cost-Sensitive Web-Based Information Acquisition for Record Matching.

Doctoral Alumnus (Nov ‘11).

Hang Cui
Doctoral Alumnus (Jul. ‘06). Thesis: Generic Soft Patterns for Question Answering.

Doctoral Alumnus (Jul. ‘06).

Min-Yen Kan
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor

WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.