Comments to Karin Kipper Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Some Questions for Discussion Semantic roles Syntactic frames Selectional restrictions

Semantic Roles Inventory: fine-grainedness vs. manageability Checklist of features (Dowty)?

Theme vs. Patient „P undergoes change“ Moved entity is not changed? (put verbs) „hit“ entails a change?

Causer vs. Agent Agent can be involuntary, or Cause can be animate: I hit my knee against the table and knocked over the cup

Syntactic Frames Strict subcategorization or optional arguments and adjunct? E.g., cite does not require a Recipient, is not always a Transfer event „Generic“ arguments? Syntax-semantics relation: how regular? (What is a declarative frame?)

Syntax/Semantics Fine-grainedness of distinctions Put-class is not homogeneous: {Arrange/*lodge/*mount} X into Y, where Y is a resultant configuration (beware polysemy of preposition!) Arrange the oranges into a pyramid

Alternations Should causative break be considered a different sense than inchoative break? Note that WN´s hierarchical structure forces a sense distinction—two different superordinates; senses are linked

Selectional Restrictions Class-based? Semantic sets? Selectional preferences (soft)?

Other Questions How were sense inventories compared? What is relation of classes to subclasses— what are hierarchical relations based on? Why use WordNet 1.5--it‘s 10 years old Why are idioms, phrasal verbs a problem? Were large clusters not predictive because of underspecification of Arg1, Arg2,...?