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SemEval-2015 Task 15: A Corpus Pattern Analysis Dictionary-Entry-Building Task V′?t Baisa Jane Bradbury Silvie Cinkova′ Masaryk University University of Wolverhampton Charles University xbaisa@fi.muni.cz J.Bradbury3@wlv.ac.uk cinkova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Isma¨?l El Maarouf Adam Kilgarriff Octavian Popescu University of Wolverhampton Lexical Computing Ltd IBM Research Center i.el-maarouf@wlv.ac.uk adam@sketchengine.co.uk o.popescu@ Abstract SENSEVAL as it was then; (Kilgarriff and Palmer, 2000)) has been part of the programme of enrich- This paper describes the ?rst SemEval task to ing NLP analyses of text so they get ever closer explore the use of Natural Language Process- to a ’meaning representation’. In relation to lexi- ing systems for building dictionary entries, cal information, this meant ?nding a lexical resource in the framework of Corpus Pattern Analysis. CPA is a corpus-driven technique which pro- which vides tools and resources to identify and rep- ? identi?ed the different meanings of words in resent unambiguously the main semantic pat- a way that made high-quality disambiguation terns in which words are used. Task 15 draws on the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs possible, (.uk), for the targeted lexi- ? represented those meanings in ways that were cal entries, and on the British National Corpus useful for the next steps of building meaning for the input text. representations. Dictionary entry building is split into three Most lexical resources explored to date have subtasks which all start from the same con- had only limited success, on either front. The cordance sample: 1) CPA parsing, where ar-