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Corpus-Based Acquisition of Support Verb Constructions for Portuguese

  • Britta D. Zeller
  • Sebastian Padó
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Abstract

We present a resource-poor approach to automatically acquire Support Verb Constructions (SVCs) for European Portuguese with a two-stage procedure. First, we apply a cross-lingual approach with a bilingual parallel corpus: starting with a Portuguese full verb, we use the translations into another language and the corresponding backtranslations to identify Portuguese verb-noun pairs with the same meaning. Since not all of these are SVCs, the candidates are ranked and filtered in a second, monolingual step based on association statistics. We discuss two parametrisations of our procedure for a high-precision and a high-recall setting. In our experiments, these parametrisations achieve a maximum precision of 91% and a maximum recall of 86%, respectively.

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lexical acquisition support verbs multi-word expressions parallel bilingual data word alignment association measures 
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  • Britta D. Zeller
    • 1
  • Sebastian Padó
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Computational LinguisticsHeidelberg UniversityGermany

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