This benefit for English NLP has motivated the development of VerbNets for languages such as Spanish and Catalan (Aparicio et al., 2008), Czech (Pala and Horák, 2008), and Mandarin (Liu and Chiang, 2008).
end-to-end manual resource development using Levin's methodology is extremely time consuming, even when supported by translations of English VerbNet classes to other languages (Sun et al., 2010;Scarton et al., 2014).