Chinese Proposition Bank

People:

• PIs: Martha Palmer, Mitch Marcus
  
• Staff: Nianwen Xue, Zixin Jiang, Scott Cotton, Meiyu Chang, Gang Chen, Zhiyi Song, Ping Yu
  

Publications:

• Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2005. Automatic Semantic Role Labeling for Chinese Verbs, in Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf
• Handling Dislocated and Discontinuous Constituents in Chinese Semantic Role Labeling. Nianwen Xue. 2004. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, in conjunction with IJNLP 2004, Hainan Island, China. pdf .
• Annotating Propositions in the Penn Chinese Treebank. Nianwen Xue and Martha Palmer. 2003. In Proceedings of the Second Sighan Workshop, Sapporo, Japan. pdf .
• Automatic Predicate Argument Structure Analysis of the Penn Chinese Treebank. Nianwen Xue and Seth Kulick. 2003. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. pdf

Resources:

• Annotation Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Proposition Bank (1st Draft). Nianwen Xue ps pdf
• Here is a list of Frame files for the verbs (Incomplete)

Tools:

• PB Tool, Scott Cotton

Undertaken as part of NIST's ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) program. Other ACE participants include:

• New York University
• BBN
• MITRE