Adverbs Revisited: Enhancing WordNet Coverage of Adverbs with a Supersense Taxonomy
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| author | Lee, Jooyoung de Sá, Jader Martins Camboim |
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| contents | WordNet offers rich supersense hierarchies for nouns and verbs, yet adverbs remain underdeveloped, lacking a systematic semantic classification. We introduce a linguistically grounded supersense typology for adverbs, empirically validated through annotation, that captures major semantic domains including manner, temporal, frequency, degree, domain, speaker-oriented, and subject-oriented functions. Results from a pilot annotation study demonstrate that these categories provide broad coverage of adverbs in natural text and can be reliably assigned by human annotators. Incorporating this typology extends WordNet's coverage, aligns it more closely with linguistic theory, and facilitates downstream NLP applications such as word sense disambiguation, event extraction, sentiment analysis, and discourse modeling. We present the proposed supersense categories, annotation outcomes, and directions for future work. |
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| spellingShingle | Adverbs Revisited: Enhancing WordNet Coverage of Adverbs with a Supersense Taxonomy Lee, Jooyoung de Sá, Jader Martins Camboim Computation and Language WordNet offers rich supersense hierarchies for nouns and verbs, yet adverbs remain underdeveloped, lacking a systematic semantic classification. We introduce a linguistically grounded supersense typology for adverbs, empirically validated through annotation, that captures major semantic domains including manner, temporal, frequency, degree, domain, speaker-oriented, and subject-oriented functions. Results from a pilot annotation study demonstrate that these categories provide broad coverage of adverbs in natural text and can be reliably assigned by human annotators. Incorporating this typology extends WordNet's coverage, aligns it more closely with linguistic theory, and facilitates downstream NLP applications such as word sense disambiguation, event extraction, sentiment analysis, and discourse modeling. We present the proposed supersense categories, annotation outcomes, and directions for future work. |
| title | Adverbs Revisited: Enhancing WordNet Coverage of Adverbs with a Supersense Taxonomy |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11214 |