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  <Title>Parsing Arguments of Nominalizations in English and Chinese</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we investigated the task of identifying and classifying arguments of eventive nominalizations in FrameNet. The best system generates an F1 score of 57.3% on the combined task of argument identification and classification using automatically extracted features on a test set of about 700 sentences using a classifier trained on about 6,000 sentences.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> As noted earlier, the bulk of past research in this area has focused on verbal predicates. Two notable exceptions to this include the work of (Hull and Gomez, 1996) - a rule based system for identifying the semantic arguments of nominal predicates, and the work of (Lapata, 2002) on interpreting the relation between the head of a nominalized compound and its modifier noun. Unfortunately, meaningful comparisons to these efforts are difficult due to differing evaluation metrics.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We would like to thank Ralph Weischedel and Scott Miller of BBN Inc. for letting us use BBN's named entity tagger - IdentiFinder; Ashley Thornton for identifying the sentences from FrameNet with predicates that are eventive nominalizations.</Paragraph>
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