Andrea Hensler


2016

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A Corpus of Literal and Idiomatic Uses of German Infinitive-Verb Compounds
Andrea Horbach | Andrea Hensler | Sabine Krome | Jakob Prange | Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht | Diana Steffen | Stefan Thater | Christian Wellner | Manfred Pinkal
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

We present an annotation study on a representative dataset of literal and idiomatic uses of German infinitive-verb compounds in newspaper and journal texts. Infinitive-verb compounds form a challenge for writers of German, because spelling regulations are different for literal and idiomatic uses. Through the participation of expert lexicographers we were able to obtain a high-quality corpus resource which offers itself as a testbed for automatic idiomaticity detection and coarse-grained word-sense disambiguation. We trained a classifier on the corpus which was able to distinguish literal and idiomatic uses with an accuracy of 85 %.