The SCF Builder Sample Clauses

The SCF Builder. The SCF builder stores the information provided by the pattern extractor as lists of eligible SCF for each verb entry. Each extracted SCF is then ordered alphabetically according to the syntactic constituents involved in order to have a normalized form of the SCF for the evaluation of the Extractor (i.e. the position of the arguments relative to the verb is not distincitive). Nevertheless, each occurrence of an SCF (including its frequency) is stored in a dedicated cache (SCF variants). In the lexicon, the variant with the highest frequency will be promoted as the canonical SCF form. To clarify this, let"s consider the examples 1. and 2. (notice that the SCF builder output is partial, i.e. auxiliary information is not reported). The dollar symbol ($) in front of each syntactic constituent is a device to facilitate the identification of SCFs. 1. Hanno accusato Xxxxxxxx xx xxxxx. "They accused Xxxxxxxx of theft" Pattern Extractor Output: $OBJGiovanni $COMPDIdifurto SCF Builder: ACCUSARE $COMP-DI_$OBJ SCF FREQ=1 V-SCF FREQ=1 SCF Variants: ACCUSARE $OBJ_ $COMP-DI FREQ=1 2. Hanno accusato di xxxxx Xxxxxxxx. "They accused of theft Xxxxxxxx" Pattern Extractor Output: $COMP-DIdif urto $OBJGiovanni SCF Builder: ACCUSARE $COMP-DI_$OBJ SCF FREQ=2 V-SCF FREQ=2 SCF Variants : ACCUSARE $COMP-DI_$OBJ FREQ=1 Due to language specific issues, i.e. the fact that Italian is a pro-drop language, and to the fact that subjects are external verb arguments, they have not been extracted at this stage of development.