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# Enhanced UD Dependencies with Neutralized Diathesis Alternation

**Authors:** [Marie Candito](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/marie-candito/), [Bruno Guillaume](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/bruno-guillaume/), [Guy Perrier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/guy-perrier/) and [Djamé Seddah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/djame-seddah/) · **Year:** 2017 · **Venue:** Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2017) **Link:** [aclanthology.org/W17-6507](https://aclanthology.org/W17-6507/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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**Authors (4)**

1. [Marie Candito](https://openalex.org/A5056181885) [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8306-4859) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2636107) · h 21 · 1397 citations · 149 works
2. [Bruno Guillaume](https://openalex.org/A5106387277) [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8314-8075) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/145652228) · h 16 · 708 citations · 185 works
3. [Guy Perrier](https://openalex.org/A5059888734) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/144849515) · h 14 · 601 citations · 160 works
4. [Djamé Seddah](https://openalex.org/A5010519567) [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0194-8197) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1679170) · h 22 · 3686 citations · 202 works

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## What it is about

The paper extends the Enhanced UD scheme in two directions. First, it recovers more arguments of non-finite verbs, so that controlled and raised subjects are explicit. Second, it neutralizes diathesis alternations, so that active, passive and causative uses of a verb share the same argument labels, without any word-sense disambiguation. Both are implemented as deterministic graph-rewriting rules on two French UD treebanks. On a 200-sentence gold set the rules give more than 90 percent F-measure on the enhanced edges that the basic tree does not contain, and about 19 percent of the verb-argument edges in that set are such added edges. The paper stays at the level of surface syntax and treats the result as input for later semantic work.

## Ideas

- I1. Enhanced control edges for English: add the subject of a controlled infinitive ("wants to go") as a second relation in the Rust layer that follows `en/src/convert.rs`; measure F on enhanced edges on a 200-sentence English set that we annotate ourselves (teacher silver checked by hand).
- I2. Diathesis neutralization in `prag`: map the passive subject and the active object to one argument slot in `world` for the verbs listed in `en/seeds/verbal`; measure role consistency on EWT dev and the role accuracy on the 200-sentence set.
- I3. Measure the value first: count, on EWT train, how many verb-argument edges the proposed rules would add; if the share is small, the Rust effort is not justified.

## For Mova

The code is `en/src/convert.rs` and `en/seeds/verbal`, and the role layer is `prag` and `world`. The chapter is [23. Complementation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/23-complementation/) for control and [28. Voice and the passive](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/28-voice-and-passive/) for the alternation. Measure first the share of verb-argument edges that the rules would add on EWT train.

Topics: [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Universal Dependencies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/universal-dependencies/)

## Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```
@inproceedings{candito2017enhanced,
  title = {{Enhanced UD Dependencies with Neutralized Diathesis Alternation}},
  author = {Candito, Marie and Guillaume, Bruno and Perrier, Guy and Seddah, Djamé},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2017)},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/W17-6507/}
}
```

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## References

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1. Anne Abeillé, Danielle Godard, and Philip Miller. 1997. Les causatives en français, un cas de compétition syntaxique [in french]. Langue française, 115(1):62–74. \#\# Conclusion Waleed Ammar, George Mulcaire, Miguel Ballesteros, Chris Dyer, and Noah A Smith. 2016. Many languages, one parser. Trans… [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Anne+Abeille%CC%81%2C+Danielle+Godard%2C+and+Philip+Miller%2E+1997%2E+Les+causatives+en+franc%CC%A7ais%2C+un+cas+de+compe%CC%81tition+syntaxique+%5Bin+french%5D%2E+Langue+franc%CC%A7aise%2C+115%281%29%3A62%E2%80%9374%2E+%5C%23%5C%23+Conclusion+Waleed+Ammar%2C+Geor)