WeSearch_StarSem

Some notes on the StarSEM 2012 shared task.

Training data

3,640 sentences with 989 instances of negation.

99 instances have no scope; 101 instances have a discontinuous scope that is not bridged by the cue.

392 instances have no event.

Collins' coverage of the training data is 99.4%.

Collins can't lemmatise contractions, e.g. can't = <unknown>

Some examples

Following Morante et al's (2011) conventions of bold for cues, underline for scope and italic for events.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch1, s1. prefixal cue, weirdness

1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

2. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

3. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings,} save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch1, s12, prefixal cue

Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch1, s67: discontinuous scope

If he wasi n the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surpeon or a house-physician: little more than a senior student.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch1, s8: weirdness

It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch1, s89: discontinuous scope

The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch3, s235: Multi-word cue, discontinuous scope

Then, again, whom was he waiting for that night, and why was he waiting for him in the yew alley rather than in his own house?"

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch4, s154: contracted cue

But as to my uncle's death: well, it all seems boiling up in my head, and I can't get it clear yet.

HoundOfTheBaskervilles_ch4, S194: weirdness

Not for the world, my dear Watson.

Instances of cues

Frq.	Cue	POS
346	not	RB
137	no	DT
71	un	JJ
64	no	UH
58	never	RB
55	nothing	NN
36	n't	RB
24	without	IN
22	less	JJ
18	no	RB
17	in	JJ
16	im	JJ
12	none	NN
8	n't	JJ
6	't	RB
6	n't	VB
5	n't	NN
5	no	NNP
5	ir	JJ
4	nor	CC
4	un	RB
4	less	RB
4	in	RB
3	dis	NN
3	not	VB
3	less	NN
2	'<NULL>'	'<NULL>'
2	not	JJ
2	un	NN
2	not	NN
2	un	IN
2	nowhere	RB
2	by_no_means	IN_DT_NN
2	prevent	VB
2	n't	NNP
2	't	NN
2	im	RB
2	on_the_contrary	IN_DT_NN
1	rather_than	RB_IN
1	nobody	NN
1	been	VBN
1	fail	VBP
1	neither_*_nor	CC_*_CC
1	absence	NN
1	other	JJ
1	nothing_at_all	NN_IN_DT
1	can	MD
1	neglected	VBN
1	ir	RB
1	un	VBG
1	refused	VBD
1	the	DT
1	yet	RB
1	never	NNP
1	save	VBP
1	not_for_the_world	RB_IN_DT_NN
1	un	VBN
1	signs	NNS
1	in	NNS
1	no	JJ
1	unusual	JJ
1	dis	VBN
1	neither_*_nor	DT_*_CC
1	by_no_means	IN_RB_VBZ
1	not_*_not	RB_*_RB
1	except	IN
1	dis	JJ