Supervised Learning of German Qualia Relations

In the last decade, substantial progress has been made in the induction of semantic relations from raw text, especially of hypernymy and meronymy in the English language and in the classification of noun-noun relations in compounds or other contexts. We investigate the question of learning qualia-like semantic relations that cross part-of-speech boundaries for German, by first introducing a hand-tagged dataset of associated noun-verb pairs for this task, and then provide classification results using a general framework for supervised classification of lexical relations.