Verb Edge
Classifies 13,767 WordNet verbs into 10 Primitives and 68 Sub-primitives, then generates a 16-bit codebook via Huffman coding. Achieves an average 2.16-word compression across Tiny (2-word), Short (3-word), and Full (5-word) packets.
WordNet
Why WordNet?
Building a verb system from scratch means gaps, arbitrary choices, and no justification. WordNet is a 40-year lexical database of 13,767 verb synsets built by linguists. We borrow the dictionary and build the grammar on top.