Luke Holman

A Question-Answer Driven Approach to Reveal Affirmative Interpretations from Verbal Negations

This paper explores a question-answer driven approach to reveal affirmative interpretations from verbal negations (i.e., when a negation cue grammatically modifies a verb). We create a new corpus consisting of 4,472 verbal negations and discover that 67.1% of them convey that an event actually occur…