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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2007 Oct 1;57(3):348–379. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.03.002

Table A2.

Precision and recall for replicating Wall Street Journal-Treebank 2 verb subcategorization results with Wall Street Journal-Charniak data.

Connine Subcategorization Treebank 2 total Charniak total Same in both Precision Recall F
Simple Intransitive 5875 6623 3552 54% 60% 57%
Prepositional Phrase 9351 10461 8596 82% 92% 87%
To Infinitive Verb Phrase 4376 4579 4153 91% 95% 93%
Prepositional Phrase + To Infinitive Verb Phrase 412 293 252 86% 61% 71%
WH Clause 2686 2258 1857 82% 69% 75%
Sentential Complement with Complementizer 3622 3475 3170 91% 88% 89%
Sentential Complement (no Complementizer) 6333 6257 5988 96% 95% 95%
Gerundive Verb Phrase 973 1000 818 82% 84% 83%
Perception Complement 1676 1695 1373 81% 82% 81%
Simple Transitive 25913 25863 23075 89% 89% 89%
Ditransitive 1396 1455 1182 81% 85% 83%
Transitive + Prepositional Phrase 9862 10144 8644 85% 88% 86%
Transitive + To Infinitive Verb Phrase 1969 1975 1670 85% 85% 85%
Transitive + WH clause 1751 1704 1401 82% 80% 81%
Transitive + Sentential Complement with complementizer 251 310 221 71% 88% 79%
Transitive + Sentential Complement (no complementizer) 95 154 71 46% 75% 57%
Passive 7804 6525 6362 98% 82% 89%
Other/error 6019 3830 2426 63% 40% 49%
Particle 3160 3478 2959 85% 94% 89%
Auxiliary 17292 18282 16374 90% 95% 92%