A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
The Finnish Proposition Bank
Authors: Haverinen K, Kanerva J, Kohonen S, Missila A, Ojala S, Viljanen T, Laippala V, Ginter F
Publisher: SPRINGER
Publication year: 2015
Journal: Language Resources and Evaluation
Journal name in source: LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Journal acronym: LANG RESOUR EVAL
Volume: 49
Issue: 4
First page : 907
Last page: 926
Number of pages: 20
ISSN: 1574-020X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-015-9310-y
We present the Finnish PropBank, a resource for semantic role labeling (SRL) of Finnish based on the Turku Dependency Treebank whose syntax is annotated in the well-known Stanford Dependency (SD) scheme. The contribution of this paper consists of the lexicon of the verbs and their arguments present in the treebank, as well as the predicate-argument annotation of all verb occurrences in the treebank text. We demonstrate that the annotation is of high quality, that the SD scheme is highly compatible with PropBank annotation, and further that the additional dependencies present in the Turku Dependency Treebank are clearly beneficial for PropBank annotation. Further, we also use the PropBank to provide a strong baseline for automated Finnish SRL using a machine learning SRL system developed for the SemEval'14 shared task on broad-coverage semantic dependency parsing. The PropBank as well as the SRL system are available under a free license at http://bionlp.utu.fi/.