Abstract
Multiword expressions in languages like Hindi are both productive and challenging. Hindi not only uses a variety of verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs) but also employs different combinatorial strategies to create new types of multiword expressions. In this paper we are investigating two such strategies that are quite common in the language. Firstly, we describe that VMWEs in Hindi are not just lexical but also morphological. Causatives are formed morphologically in Hindi. Second, we examine Stacked VMWEs i.e. when at least two VMWEs occur together. We suggest that the existing PARSEME annotation framework can be extended to these two phenomena without changing the existing guidelines. We also propose rule-based heuristics using existing Universal Dependency annotations to automatically identify and annotate some of the VMWEs in the language. The goal of this paper is to refine the existing PARSEME corpus of Hindi for VMWEs while expanding its scope giving a more comprehensive picture of VMWEs in Hindi.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.mwe-1.14
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Archna Bhatia, Gosse Bouma, A. Seza Doğruöz, Kilian Evang, Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Joakim Nivre, Alexandre Rademaker
- Venues:
- MWE | UDW | WS
- SIGs:
- SIGPARSE | SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 98–105
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2024.mwe-1.14/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kanishka Jain and Ashwini Vaidya. 2024. Revisiting VMWEs in Hindi: Annotating Layers of Predication. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 98–105, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Revisiting VMWEs in Hindi: Annotating Layers of Predication (Jain & Vaidya, MWE-UDW 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/2024.mwe-1.14.pdf