Software Details
| Title: | First Release: Shallow Semantic Parser |
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| Submitter: | Katrin Erk |
| Description: | Dear all, This is to announce the first release of Shalmaneser (a SHALlow seMANtic parSER), a system for automatic sense assignment and semantic role labeling. Shalmaneser comes with pre-trained FrameNet classifiers for English and German. You can download Shalmaneser from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/salsa/shal/ Shalmaneser has been developed with two uses in mind: research in applications that use semantic parses, and research on better semantic parsing. So Shalmaneser can be used either as a 'black box' to obtain semantic parses for free text, or as a research platform that can be extended to new parsers, languages, or classification paradigms. Some features of the system: - Shallow semantic parser: word sense disambiguation for predicates, plus semantic role labeling - Input: plain text. Syntactic processing integrated - Classifiers available: trained on FrameNet data for English and German (System also applicable to other frameworks) - System output can be viewed graphically in the SALTO viewer: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/salsa/page.php?id=software - System realized as a toolchain of independent modules communicating through a common XML format -- hence extensible by further modules - Interfaces for addition/exchange of parsers, learners, features More information: K. Erk and S. Pado: Shalmaneser - a flexible toolbox for semantic role assignment. Proceedings of LREC-06, Genoa. http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~pado/pub/papers/lrec06_erk.pdf Please check it out, and let us know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions! Katrin and Sebastian Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~{erk, pado} SALSA Project Computational Linguistics Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics Semantics Syntax Text/Corpus Linguistics |
| Language Specialty: |
English German |
| LL Issue: | 17.1984 |
| Date Posted: | 07-Jul-2006 |
