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| Title | Using High-Quality Resources in NLP: The Valency Dictionary of English as a Resource for Left-Associative Grammars |
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| Authors | Thomas Proisl and Besim Kabashi |
| Abstract | In Natural Language Processing (NLP), the quality of a system depends to agreat extent on the quality of the linguistic resources it uses. One area whereprecise information is particularly needed is valency. The unpredictablecharacter of valency properties requires a reliable source of information forsyntactic and semantic analysis. There are several (electronic) dictionariesthat provide the necessary information. One such dictionary that containsespecially detailed valency descriptions is the Valency Dictionary of English.We will discuss how the Valency Dictionary of English in machine-readable formcan be used as a resource for NLP. We will use valency descriptions that arefreely available online via the Erlangen Valency Pattern Bank which containsmost of the information from the printed dictionary. We will show that thevalency data can be used for accurately parsing natural language with arule-based approach by integrating it into a Left-Associative Grammar. TheValency Dictionary of English can therefore be regarded as being well suitedfor NLP purposes. |
| Language | Parsing |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Grammar and Syntax, Parsing |
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Using High-Quality Resources in NLP: The Valency Dictionary of English as a Resource for Left-Associative Grammars |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PROISL10.62, author = {Thomas Proisl and Besim Kabashi}, title = {Using High-Quality Resources in NLP: The Valency Dictionary of English as a Resource for Left-Associative Grammars}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |