Example-based acquisition of fine-grained collocational resources

Rodríguez Fernández, Sara; Carlini, Roberto; Espinosa-Anke, Luis; Wanner, Leo

Example-based acquisition of fine-grained collocational resources

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Rodríguez-Fernández S, Carlini R, Espinosa-Anke L, Wanner L. Example-based acquisition of fine-grained collocational resources. In: Calzolari N, Choukri K, Declerck T, Goggi S, Grobelnik M, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Moreno A, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors. LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation; 2016 May 23-28; Portorož (Slovenia). [place unknown]: European Language Resources Association (ELRA); 2016. Session P28, Multiword expressions; p. 2317-22.

Abstract

Collocations such as heavy rain or make [a] decision, are combinations of two elements where one (the base) is freely chosen, while the/nchoice of the other (collocate) is restricted, depending on the base. Collocations present difficulties even to advanced language learners,/nwho usually struggle to find the right collocate to express a particular meaning, e.g., both heavy and strong express the meaning ‘intense’,/nbut while rain selects heavy, wind selects strong. Lexical Functions (LFs) describe the meanings that hold between the elements of/ncollocations, such as ‘intense’, ‘perform’, ‘create’, ‘increase’, etc. Language resources with semantically classified collocations would/nbe of great help for students, however they are expensive to build, since they are manually constructed, and scarce. We present an unsupervised/napproach to the acquisition and semantic classification of collocations according to LFs, based on word embeddings in which,/ngiven an example of a collocation for each of the target LFs and a set of bases, the system retrieves a list of collocates for each base and LF.

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Comunicació presentada a la Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, celebrada a Portoroz (Eslovènia) els dies 23 a 28 de maig 2016.