Lexical verb classes have been used to support various (multilingual) tasks, such as computational lexicography, language generation, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, and subcategorization acquisition (Dorr, 1997;Prescher et al., 2000;Korhonen, 2002).
large-scale exploitation of the classes in real-world or domain-sensitive tasks has not been possible because the existing classifications, e.g.