PropBank is acorpus that isannotated with verbalpropositions and their arguments—a "proposition bank". Although "PropBank" refers to a specific corpus produced by Martha Palmeret al.,[1] the termpropbank is also coming to be used as acommon noun referring to any corpus that has been annotated with propositions and their arguments.
The PropBank project has played a role in recent[when?] research innatural language processing, and has been used insemantic role labelling.[2]
PropBank differs fromFrameNet, the resource to which it is most frequently compared, in several ways.
PropBank is a verb-oriented resource, while FrameNet is centered on the more abstract notion of frames, which generalizes descriptions across similar verbs (e.g. "describe" and "characterize") as well as nouns and other words (e.g. "description").[2] PropBank does not annotate events or states of affairs described using nouns. PropBank commits to annotating all verbs in a corpus, whereas the FrameNet project chooses sets of example sentences from a large corpus and only in a few cases has annotated longer continuous stretches of text.
PropBank-style annotations often remain close to the syntactic level, while FrameNet-style annotations are sometimes more semantically motivated. From the start, PropBank was developed with the idea of serving as training data formachine learning-basedsemantic role labeling systems in mind. It requires that all arguments to a verb besyntactic constituents and different senses of a word are only distinguished if the differences bear on the arguments.[3] Due to such differences, semantic role labeling with respect to PropBank is often a somewhat easier task than producing FrameNet-style annotations.
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