In this paper, we present and explain TRopBank “Turkish PropBank v2.0”. PropBank is a hand-annotated corpus of propositions which is used to obtain the predicate-argument information of a language. Predicate-argument information of a language can help understand semantic roles of arguments. “Turkish PropBank v2.0”, unlike PropBank v1.0, has a much more extensive list of Turkish verbs, with 17.673 verbs in total.
The original paper can be found from here and you can access the original repository TurkishPropBank.
Dataset Details
For TRropBank, a total of 17,691 verbs were annotated. As the data suggests, unaccusative verbs that require a patient or theme in the ARG1 column constitute roughly 15.1% of all the annotated verbs (see Table). Based on the data, it can be inferred that Turkish has an evident preference for verbs that require an ARG0 over ones that require an ARG1 as their subject.
Moreover, we can see that a significant portion of Turkish verbs, 47.9% to be exact, have the transitive framework. Turkish displays an observable preference regarding transitivity. Furthermore, having predicates that do not require any arguments, Turkish diverges from the majority of the languages whose PropBanks have been reviewed in Section 2 in the paper. Even though predicates without arguments (idiomatic
structures) make up less than 1% of the total, the existence of such a divergence is significant.