GerEO: A Large-Scale Resource on the Syntactic Distribution of German Experiencer-Object Verbs

Johanna M. Poppek, Simon Masloch, Tibor Kiss


Abstract
Although studied for several decades, the syntactic properties of experiencer-object (EO) verbs are still under discussion, while most analyses are not supported by substantial corpus data. With GerEO, we intend to fill this lacuna for German EO-verbs by presenting a large-scale database of more than 10,000 examples for 64 verbs (up to 200 per verb) from a newspaper corpus annotated for several syntactic and semantic features relevant for their analysis, including the overall syntactic construction, the semantic stimulus type, and the form of a possible stimulus preposition, i.e. a preposition heading a PP that indicates (a part/aspect of) the stimulus. Non-psych occurrences of the verbs are not excluded from the database but marked as such to make a comparison possible. Data of this kind can be used to develop and test theoretical hypotheses on the properties of EO-verbs, aid in the construction of experiments as well as provide training and test data for AI systems.
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2022.lrec-1.362
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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3391–3397
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Johanna M. Poppek, Simon Masloch, and Tibor Kiss. 2022. GerEO: A Large-Scale Resource on the Syntactic Distribution of German Experiencer-Object Verbs. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3391–3397, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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