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This paper deals with the identification of verbal multiword expressions in Croatian using NooJ. We focus on light verb constructions, i.e. constructions consisting of a light verb and a nominal part (e.g. donijeti odluku ‘to make a decision’ or ‘to reach a decision’). The nominal part in light verb constructions (LVCs) can be either a noun phrase (e.g. dati udarac ‘to give a blow’) or a prepositional phrase (staviti na raspolaganje ‘to put at disposal’). Light verbs are entirely or partially deprived of their lexical meaning and the meaning of the whole construction is conveyed by their complimentary NPs or PPs. All elements in these constructions act as a single unit at some level of linguistic analysis, particularly at the level of semantics and, more recently, of syntax.
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However, although this is one of our final objectives, we will deal with this part in future work.
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It is important to notice that the preposition in Croatian language do not have a case. However, each one only allows NPs in some cases to follow them. This information is incoded in the dictionary of pronouns as a Case attribute and it is what we refer to at this place.
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The same logic present in graphs for the recognition of Types 1 and 5 is followed for the recognition of Types 2, 3 and 4.
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Šojat, K., Kocijan, K., Bekavac, B. (2018). Identification of Croatian Light Verb Constructions with NooJ. In: Mbarki, S., Mourchid, M., Silberztein, M. (eds) Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ and Its Natural Language Processing Applications. NooJ 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73420-0_8
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