--- title: "James Pustejovsky — papers and cards" description: "James Pustejovsky: 4 paper cards in the Research library (2005–2023), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-pustejovsky/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-pustejovsky/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / James Pustejovsky # James Pustejovsky 4 paper cards in the Research library · 2005–2023 James Pustejovsky wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2005–2023, most of them on [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Martha Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-palmer/), [Julia Bonn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-bonn/), [Alexis Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexis-palmer/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5012141433) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2233-9761) · [**h-index 55**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5012141433) · [15842 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5012141433) · [422 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5012141433) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=James+Pustejovsky) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=James+Pustejovsky) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=James+Pustejovsky) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=James+Pustejovsky) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=James+Pustejovsky) Topics: [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) 2 · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 2 · [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1 · [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) 1 · [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) 1 ## Ideas Mova took (2) From the ideas ledger: an idea tried, kept or queued, or measured with no gain, and what it gave. - **measured, no gain** — Turn the semantic predicates already stored in prag/data/verbnet.tsv (the frame rows carry has_possession !has_possession transfer cause …, but nothing reads them) into derived state facts for the student: after a transfer frame, the recipient has the theme… *([VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-2019-verbnet-representations-subevent-semantics-transfer/) · result states from VerbNet predicates (possession after transfer, location after motion) remembered as Fact frames: courses 7704/2206→7698/2203; possession…)* - **measured, no gain** — Irrealis for future-having classes (promise, offer, owe): their transfer did not happen yet, so no possession fact is derived. A negative control for I1: «The king promised the miller gold» must not yield «the miller has gold». *([VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-2019-verbnet-representations-subevent-semantics-transfer/) · no states from classes whose predicates say irrealis (promise, offer) — part of I1, dropped with it)* ## Papers 1. **[Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bonn-2023-mapping-amr-umr-resources-adapting/)** *(2023)* A reference paper that lists how AMR structures map onto UMR, the typologically motivated successor to AMR. 2. **[UMR Annotation of Multiword Expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bonn-2023-umr-annotation-multiword-expressions/)** *(2023)* This is a guideline paper. It runs no experiment and reports no counts. UMR, which is based on AMR, maps words to concepts. The authors define a multiword expression (MWE) operationally: several words that together form one concept. They sort MWEs into three groups. Fixed MWEs are unmodifiable word sequences, such as… 3. **[VerbNet Representations: Subevent Semantics for Transfer Verbs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-2019-verbnet-representations-subevent-semantics-transfer/)** *(2019)* The paper presents VerbNet's revised semantic representations, shown on the 37 classes (810 verbs) of change of possession and transfer of information. 4. **[Merging PropBank, NomBank, TimeBank, Penn Discourse Treebank and Coreference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pustejovsky-2005-merging-propbank-nombank-timebank-penn/)** *(2005)* Separate annotation projects each cover one part of semantics: PropBank and NomBank (predicate-argument structure of verbs and nouns), TimeBank (events, times and their links), the Penn Discourse Treebank (connectives as predicates), and Essex coreference (MATE scheme). ## Co-authors (22) - [Martha Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-palmer/) ×4 - [Julia Bonn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-bonn/) ×3 - [Alexis Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexis-palmer/) ×2 - [Andrew Cowell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-cowell/) ×2 - [Jan Hajič](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-hajic/) ×2 - [Jin Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-zhao/) ×2 - [Nianwen Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nianwen-xue/) ×2 - [Zdenka Urešová](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zdenka-uresova/) ×2 - [Adam Meyers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-meyers/) - [Annie Zaenen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annie-zaenen/) - Haibo Sun - [James Gung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-gung/) - [James H. Martin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-martin/) - Jens E. L. Van Gysel - Lukas Denk - [Massimo Poesio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/) - Meagan Vigus - Rosa Vallejos - [Shira Wein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shira-wein/) - [Skatje Myers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/skatje-myers/) - [Susan Windisch Brown](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-windisch-brown/) - [William Croft](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-croft/) ## More papers in the library (6) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [Missing Links: LLM-Augmentation of Event Triggers of State Changes in the OpenPI Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rim-2026-missing-links-llm-augmentation-event/) — Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky · 2026 - [Structured Entity Extraction from Hawaiian Television Chyrons Using Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lynch-2026-structured-entity-extraction-hawaiian-television/) — Kelley Lynch, Owen King, Kyeongmin Rim, et al. · 2026 - [Common Ground Tracking in Multimodal Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khebour-2024-common-ground-tracking-multimodal-dialogue/) — Ibrahim Khalil Khebour, Kenneth Lai, Mariah Bradford, et al. · 2024 - [A Formal Analysis of Multimodal Referring Strategies Under Common Ground](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/krishnaswamy-2020-formal-analysis-multimodal-referring-strategies/) — Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky · 2020 - [Increasing Informativeness in Temporal Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pustejovsky-2011-increasing-informativeness-temporal-annotation/) — James Pustejovsky, Amber Stubbs · 2011 - [Classification of Discourse Coherence Relations: An Exploratory Study using Multiple Knowledge Sources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wellner-2006-classification-discourse-coherence-relations-exploratory/) — Ben Wellner, James Pustejovsky, Catherine Havasi, et al. · 2006