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Light Verb Constructions in the SzegedParalellFX English–Hungarian Parallel Corpus
... of multiword expressions are not integrated into the system. Statistical data on co-occurrence frequencies can also be used when automatically translating light verb construc- tions without bilingual lists ...
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Light verb constructions with ‘do’ and ‘be’ in Hindi: A TAG analysis
... the light verbs “do” and “be” (Hindi kar and ho respectively). Light verb constructions are a challenge for computational grammars because they are a highly productive predicational strategy in ...
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Corpus based Study and Identification of Mandarin Chinese Light Verb Variations
... The study of English light verb constructions (LVCs) (e.g., take a look, make an offer) has been an important topic in linguistics (Jespersen, 1965; Butt and Geuder, 2003; among others) as well as in ...
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Two Types of Korean Light Verb Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar
... the light verb ha 'do' used in two types of Korean light verb constructions ...possible light verb senses in the lexicon, potential overgeneration of ill- formed LVCs, and the ...
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The Representation of Czech Light Verb Constructions in a Valency Lexicon
... Despite being subject to many analyses, see esp. (Butt, 2010), a clear-cut definition of LVCs is still missing. In this paper, we follow both semantic and syntactic criteria for distinguishing LVCs. (i) The semantic ...
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Learning English Light Verb Constructions: Contextual or Statistical
... In this paper, we investigate a supervised ma- chine learning framework for automatically learning of English Light Verb Constructions (LVCs). Our system achieves an 86.3% accu- racy with a baseline ...
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Linguistic features for Hindi light verb construction identification
... the light verb and in the majority of the cases, both noun and light verb occur next to each other in the ...and light verb can be scrambled away from each other, but we found ...
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4FX: Light Verb Constructions in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus
... prototypical verb + noun combination (VERB), light verb constructions may be present in different syn- tactic structures, that is, in participles (PART, ...split light verb ...
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Identifying English and Hungarian Light Verb Constructions: A Contrastive Approach
... Light verb constructions ...the verb functions as the syn- tactic head, but the semantic head is the ...a light verb) usu- ally loses its original sense to some ...the verb ...
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Detecting Noun Compounds and Light Verb Constructions: a Contrastive Study
... and light verb constructions, we considered it important to develop methods for both MWE types that make use of their characteristics and to adapt those methods to the other type of MWE – in this way, the ...
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Annotating Chinese Light Verb Constructions according to PARSEME guidelines
... the light verb 进 行 jinxing ‘proceed’ and 加以 jiayi ‘inflict’ can only take eventive noun (either deverbal noun as in 加 以研 究 jiayi yanjiu ‘conduct research’ or event noun as in 进 行 比 赛 jinxing bisai ‘to have ...
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On Çek- as a Light Verb -A Contrastive View from Japanese-
... different light verbs are used by the perception of the referential verbal ...the light verb et-, another light verb yap- becomes the head of V', and the object should take the dative ...
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Predicting Dialect Variation in Immigrant Contexts Using Light Verb Constructions
... Languages spoken by immigrants change due to contact with the local languages. Capturing these changes is problematic for current language technologies, which are typically developed for speakers of the standard dialect ...
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Discovering Light Verb Constructions and their Translations from Parallel Corpora without Word Alignment
... on light verb constructions such as to make a presen- tation and to take a walk, which generally contain non-adjacent tokens and thus would probably not be captured by standard word alignment ...
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Hungarian Corpus of Light Verb Constructions
... Hungarian light verb constructions, we decided to build a corpus in which light verb constructions are ...since light verb constructions are considered to frequently occur in ...
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Full coverage Identification of English Light Verb Constructions
... 2002). Light verb constructions (LVCs) ...the verb functions as the syntactic head (the whole construction fulfills the role of a verb in the clause), but the semantic head is the noun ...a ...
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Transitivity in Light Verb Variations in Mandarin Chinese – A Comparable Corpus-based Statistical Approach
... between light verbs as well as variations are very subtle and complex to be observed, and also this kind of differences are more tend to be frequency or preference difference instead of grammaticality dichotomies ...
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Capturing and Parsing the Mixed Properties of Light Verb Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar
... One of the most widely used constructions in Korean is the so-called light verb construction (LVC) involving an active-denoting verbal noun (VN) together with the light verb ha-ta ‘do’. This ...
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Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation
... The verb annotation in (9) does not capture any of the semantics of the offer event, instead focusing on make as if it were a heavy, semantically rich ...for verb relations, the price argument is lumped ...
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Cross Lingual Variation of Light Verb Constructions: Using Parallel Corpora and Automatic Alignment for Linguistic Research
... Our research concentrates on one type of con- struction that needs a special treatment in the task of aligning corpora and projecting linguistic an- notation from one language to another, namely light verb ...
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