SemSketches-2021: experimenting with the machine processing of the pilot semantic sketches corpus

The paper deals with elaborating different approaches to the machine processing of semantic sketches. It presents the pilot open corpus of semantic sketches. Different aspects of creating the sketches are discussed, as well as the tasks that the sketches can help to solve. Special attention is paid to the creation of the machine processing tools for the corpus. For this purpose, the SemSketches-2021 Shared Task was organized. The participants were given the anonymous sketches and a set of contexts containing the necessary predicates. During the Task, one had to assign the proper contexts to the corresponding sketches.

The Pilot Corpus of the English Semantic Sketches

The paper is devoted to the creation of the semantic sketches for English verbs. The pilot corpus consists of the English-Russian sketch pairs and is aimed to show what kind of contrastive studies the sketches help to conduct. Special attention is paid to the cross-language differences between the sketches with similar semantics. Moreover, we discuss the process of building a semantic sketch, and analyse the mistakes that could give insight to the linguistic nature of sketches.