The Register-specific Distribution of Personification in Hungarian: A Corpus-driven Analysis

Gabor Simon


Abstract
The aim of the paper is twofold: (i) to present an extended version of the PerSE corpus, the language resource for investigating personification in Hungarian; (ii) to explore the semantic and lexicogrammatical patterns of Hungarian personification in a corpus-driven analysis, based on the current version of the research corpus. PerSE corpus is compiled from online available Hungarian texts in different registers including journalistic (car reviews and reports on interstate relations) and academic discourse (original research papers from different fields). The paper provides the reader with the infrastructure and the protocol of the semi-automatic and manual annotation in the corpus. Then it gives an overview of the register-specific distribution of personifications and focuses on some of its lexicogrammatical patterns.
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2024.figlang-1.14
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024)
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid)
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Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan, Anna Feldman, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Emmy Liu
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Fig-Lang | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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99–109
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.figlang-1.14
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10.18653/v1/2024.figlang-1.14
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Gabor Simon. 2024. The Register-specific Distribution of Personification in Hungarian: A Corpus-driven Analysis. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024), pages 99–109, Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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