The “Jump and Stay” Method to Discover Proper Verb Centered Constructions in Corpus Lattices

Bálint Sass


Abstract
The research presented here is based on the theoretical model of corpus lattices. We implemented this as an effective data structure, and developed an algorithm based on this structure to discover essential verbal expressions from corpus data. The idea behind the algorithm is the “jump and stay” principle, which tells us that our target expressions will be found at such places in the lattice where the value of a suitable function (defined on the vertex set of the corpus lattice) significantly increases (jumps) and then remains the same (stays). We evaluated our method on Hungarian data. Evaluation shows that about 75% of the obtained expressions are correct, actual errors are rare. Thus, this paper is 1. a proof of concept concerning the corpus lattice model, opening the way to investigate this structure further through our implementation; and 2. a proof of concept of the “jump and stay” idea and the algorithm itself, opening the way to apply it further, e.g. for other languages.
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R19-1124
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
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September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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1076–1084
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-1124
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_124
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Bálint Sass. 2019. The “Jump and Stay” Method to Discover Proper Verb Centered Constructions in Corpus Lattices. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 1076–1084, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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