VerbNet

a class-based verb lexicon

Description

VerbNet is a verb lexicon with syntactic and semantic information for English verbs, using Levin verb classes to systematically construct lexical entries. For each syntactic frame in a verb class, there is a set of semantic predicates associated with it.

Contact

• Computer and Information Science. University of Pennsylvania
• Url: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/group/verbnet/
• Members: Martha Palmer, Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, Benjamin Snyder (presented VerbNet on LREC2004)

Data

• freely available
• see file://data/corpus/verbnet
• Online Demo: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bsnyder3/cgi-bin/search.cgi
• VerbIndex: combining information from the VerbNet, PropBank, and FrameNet projects.

see also: FrameNet, PropBank