Syntax-based identification of light-verb constructions

Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Marie Candito


Abstract
This paper analyzes results on light-verb construction identification from the PARSEME shared-task, distinguishing between simple cases that could be directly learned from training data from more complex cases that require an extra level of semantic processing. We propose a simple baseline that beats the state of the art for the simple cases, and couple it with another simple baseline to handle the complex cases. We additionally present two other classifiers based on a richer set of features, with results surpassing the state of the art by 8 percentage points.
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W19-6110
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Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics
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September–October
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2019
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Turku, Finland
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Mareike Hartmann, Barbara Plank
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NoDaLiDa
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Linköping University Electronic Press
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97–104
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-6110
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Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro and Marie Candito. 2019. Syntax-based identification of light-verb constructions. In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 97–104, Turku, Finland. Linköping University Electronic Press.
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