Joint search in a bilingual valency lexicon and an annotated corpus

Eva Fučíková, Jan Hajič, Zdeňka Urešová


Abstract
In this paper and the associated system demo, we present an advanced search system that allows to perform a joint search over a (bilingual) valency lexicon and a correspondingly annotated linked parallel corpus. This search tool has been developed on the basis of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank, but its ideas are applicable in principle to any bilingual parallel corpus that is annotated for dependencies and valency (i.e., predicate-argument structure), and where verbs are linked to appropriate entries in an associated valency lexicon. Our online search tool consolidates more search interfaces into one, providing expanded structured search capability and a more efficient advanced way to search, allowing users to search for verb pairs, verbal argument pairs, their surface realization as recorded in the lexicon, or for their surface form actually appearing in the linked parallel corpus. The search system is currently under development, and is replacing our current search tool available at http://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/CzEngVallex, which could search the lexicon but the queries cannot take advantage of the underlying corpus nor use the additional surface form information from the lexicon(s). The system is available as open source.
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C16-2009
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Hideo Watanabe
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COLING
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40–44
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Eva Fučíková, Jan Hajič, and Zdeňka Urešová. 2016. Joint search in a bilingual valency lexicon and an annotated corpus. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 40–44, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Joint search in a bilingual valency lexicon and an annotated corpus (Fučíková et al., COLING 2016)
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