Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the behavior of verb-particle constructions in English questions. We present a small dataset that contains questions and verb-particle construction candidates. We demonstrate that there are significant differences in the distribution of WH-words, verbs and prepositions/particles in sentences that contain VPCs and sentences that contain only verb + prepositional phrase combinations both by statistical means and in machine learning experiments. Hence, VPCs and non-VPCs can be effectively separated from each other by using a rich feature set, containing several novel features.- Anthology ID:
- W17-1721
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017)
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Valencia, Spain
- Editors:
- Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze
- Venue:
- MWE
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 155–160
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-1721
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-1721
- Cite (ACL):
- Veronika Vincze. 2017. Verb-Particle Constructions in Questions. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), pages 155–160, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Verb-Particle Constructions in Questions (Vincze, MWE 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/W17-1721.pdf