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MWEs in Treebanks: From Survey to Guidelines

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By means of an online survey, we have investigated ways in which various types of multiword expressions are annotated in existing treebanks. The results indicate that there is considerable variation in treatments across treebanks and thereby also, to some extent, across languages and across theoretical frameworks. The comparison is focused on the annotation of light verb constructions and verbal idioms. The survey shows that the light verb constructions either get special annotations as such, or are treated as ordinary verbs, while VP idioms are handled through different strategies. Based on insights from our investigation, we propose some general guidelines for annotating multiword expressions in treebanks. The recommendations address the following application-based needs: distinguishing MWEs from similar but compositional constructions; searching distinct types of MWEs in treebanks; awareness of literal and nonliteral meanings; and normalization of the MWE representation. The cross-lingually and cross-theoretically focused survey is intended as an aid to accessing treebanks and an aid for further work in treebank annotation.
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hal-01316352 , version 1 (16-05-2016)

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Victoria Rosén, Koenraad de Smedt, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard, Eduard Bejček, Agata Savary, et al.. MWEs in Treebanks: From Survey to Guidelines. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. ⟨hal-01316352⟩
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