Papers by Manfred Klenner
Polar Quantification of Actor Noun Phrases for German (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Polanyi and Zaenen (2006) focused on the negative polar load of noun phrases, especially those denoting actors. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to measure the negative polar load of noun phrases by using a silver standard and a BERT-based intensity regressor. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on a lexicon-based silver standard and tested empirically. |
Is Gender Reference Gender-specific? Studies in a Polar Domain (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | a german-language newspaper corpus contains a large number of newspaper texts with gender tags . a gender-specific way of gender reference is investigated by using a polar load-based classifier . |
| Approach: | They investigate how gender authorship influences positive and negative gender reference . they use a german valence lexicon, a German polar load lexicone and a verb-based analysis of the polar role a noun plays . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method mainly uses a German valence lexicon, a german polar load lexical, and a polar lexicogramma. |
Animacy Denoting German Nouns: Annotation and Classification (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Animacy detection is meant to distinguish words which denote humans from words used to denote non-humans. |
| Approach: | They propose a gold standard for animacy detection comprising almost 14,500 German nouns that might be used to denote either animate entities or non-animate entities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed gold standard comprises almost 14,500 German nouns that might be used to denote either animate entities or non-animate entities. |