Rollenwechsel-English: a large-scale semantic role corpus

Abstract

We present the Rollenwechsel-English (RW-eng) corpus, a large corpus of automatically-labelled semantic frames extracted fromthe ukWaC corpus and BNC using Propbank roles. RW-eng contains both full-phrase constituents for labelled roles as well as headsidentified by a series of heuristics. This corpus is of a scale and size suitable for new deep learning approaches to language modellingand distributional semantics, particularly as it pertains to generalized event knowledge. We describe the structure of this corpus, toolsfor its use, and successful use cases.