Dependency-based syntactic-semantic analysis with PropBank and NomBank

This paper presents our contribution in the closed track of the 2008 CoNLL Shared Task (Surdeanu et al., 2008). To tackle the problem of joint syntactic--semantic analysis, the system relies on a syntactic and a semantic subcomponent. The syntactic model is a bottom-up projective parser using pseudo-projective transformations, and the semantic model uses global inference mechanisms on top of a pipeline of classifiers. The complete syntactic--semantic output is selected from a candidate pool generated by the subsystems.