Abstract:This paper explores semantic role labeling (SRL) in the Chinese language for nominal predicates. In addition to the widely adopted features of verbal SRL, various nominal predicate-specific features are also explored. Moreover, the nominal SRL performance has been improved by properly integrating features that were derived from a state-of-the-art verbal SRL system. Finally, the paper explains in detail the nominal predicate recognition, which is essential in a fully automatic nominal SRL system. Evaluations on Chinese NomBank show that proper integration of a verbal SRL system significantly improves the performance of a nominal SRL. It also shows that this nominal SRL system achieves the performance of 72.67 in F1-measure on golden parse trees and golden predicates, and outperforms the state-of-the-art nominal SRL systems in the Chinese language; however, the performance drops to 55.14 in F1-measure on automatic parse trees and automatic predicates.