Learning thematic role relations for lexical semantic nets [Elektronische Ressource] / von Andreas Wagner

LEARNING THEMATIC ROLE RELATIONS FORLEXICAL SEMANTIC NETSvonANDREAS WAGNERPhilosophische Dissertationangenommen von der Neuphilologischen Fakult tder Universit t T bingenam 8. Dezember 2004T bingen2005Gedruckt mit Genehmigung der Neuphilologischen Fakult tder Universit t T bingenHauptberichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Erhard HinrichsMitberichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Martin VolkDekan: Prof. Dr. Joachim KnapeAcknowledgementsThis work would not have been possible without the intellectual and/or moral support of a number ofpersons.First of all, I wish thank my main supervisor Prof. Erhard Hinrichs and my second supervisor Prof.Martin Volk. Erhard Hinrichs was the person who made this thesis possible by accepting me as a PhDstudent in the Graduiertenkolleg Integriertes Linguistik-Studium at the University of T bingen. Hissupervision was characterised by a spirit of great open-mindedness and benevolence, especially dur-ing demanding periods of my work. Martin Volk kindly agreed to take on the job of being secondsupervisor, at a point where my research was already at quite an advanced state. He was thus facedwith the dif culty of becoming familiar with a sophisticated system of interdependent data types, pro-cessing approaches, and motivations behind these. The necessity of remote communication betweenT bingen and Stockholm introduced a further challenge. Consequently, Martin gave invaluable hintsfrom an outside perspective .