VerbNet

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The VerbNet project maps PropBank verb types to their corresponding Levin classes. It is a lexical resource that incorporates both semantic and syntactic information about its contents.

VerbNet is part of the SemLink project in development at the University of Colorado.

Related projects

UBY, a database of 10 resources including VerbNet.

References

↑ [9780199842193 The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science]. Oxford University Press. 2017. ISBN 9780199842193. Retrieved June 30, 2026. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)

External links

Karin Kipper's dissertation — VerbNet: a broad-coverage, comprehensive verb lexicon
Martha Palmer's Verbnet page — contains download of the VerbNet XML files and web interface to the database
Unified Verb Index — unified index to three lexical semantic resources, VerbNet, PropBank, and FrameNet

v t e Corpus linguistics
Text corpora, English	American National Corpus Bank of English Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language British National Corpus Brown Corpus Buckeye Corpus Cambridge English Corpus Corpus of Contemporary American English Enron Corpus EnTenTen International Corpus of English Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus Oxford English Corpus PropBank Spoken English Corpus Switchboard Telephone Speech Corpus TIMIT VerbNet Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English
Text corpora, non-English	Bijankhan Corpus CHILDES CorCenCC National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh Croatian Language Corpus Croatian National Corpus Czech National Corpus Europarl Corpus German Reference Corpus Hamshahri Corpus National Corpus of Polish Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Persian Speech Corpus Quranic Arabic Corpus Russian National Corpus Somali Corpus Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech Slovenian National Corpus TalkBank Tatoeba Tekstaro de Esperanto TenTen Corpus Family Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Organizations	BNC consortium COBUILD Sketch Engine Linguistic Data Consortium

Natural language processing

General terms

Text analysis

Text segmentation	Compound-term processing Lemmatization Lexical analysis Text chunking Stemming Sentence segmentation Word segmentation

Automatic summarization

Machine translation

Distributional semantics models

Language resources,
datasets and corpora

Types and standards	Corpus linguistics Lexical resource Linguistic Linked Open Data Machine-readable dictionary Parallel text PropBank Semantic network Simple Knowledge Organization System Speech corpus Text corpus Thesaurus (information retrieval) Treebank Universal Dependencies
Data	BabelNet Bank of English DBpedia FrameNet Google Ngram Viewer UBY WordNet Wikidata

Automatic identification
and data capture

Topic model

Computer-assisted
reviewing

Natural language
user interface

Visual-linguistic

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