Support Verb Constructions across the Ocean Sea

Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede, Sónia Reis


Abstract
This paper analyses the support (or light) verb constructions (SVC) in a publicly available, manually annotated corpus of multiword expressions (MWE) in Brazilian Portuguese. The paper highlights several issues in the linguistic definitions therein adopted for these types of MWE, and reports the results from applying STRING, a rule-based parsing system, originally developed for European Portuguese, to this corpus from Brazilian Portuguese. The goal is two-fold: to improve the linguistic definition of SVC in the annotation task, as well as to gauge the major difficulties found when transposing linguistic resources between these two varieties of the same language.
Anthology ID:
2022.mwe-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions @LREC2022
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Archna Bhatia, Paul Cook, Shiva Taslimipoor, Marcos Garcia, Carlos Ramisch
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MWE
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
26–36
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.mwe-1.6
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Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede, and Sónia Reis. 2022. Support Verb Constructions across the Ocean Sea. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions @LREC2022, pages 26–36, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Support Verb Constructions across the Ocean Sea (Baptista et al., MWE 2022)
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