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
Abstract
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 %.- Anthology ID:
 - L16-1135
 - Volume:
 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
 - Month:
 - May
 - Year:
 - 2016
 - Address:
 - Portorož, Slovenia
 - Editors:
 - Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
 - Venue:
 - LREC
 - SIG:
 - Publisher:
 - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
 - Note:
 - Pages:
 - 836–841
 - Language:
 - URL:
 - https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/L16-1135/
 - DOI:
 - Cite (ACL):
 - Andrea Horbach, Andrea Hensler, Sabine Krome, Jakob Prange, Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht, Diana Steffen, Stefan Thater, Christian Wellner, and Manfred Pinkal. 2016. A Corpus of Literal and Idiomatic Uses of German Infinitive-Verb Compounds. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 836–841, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
 - Cite (Informal):
 - A Corpus of Literal and Idiomatic Uses of German Infinitive-Verb Compounds (Horbach et al., LREC 2016)
 - PDF:
 - https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/L16-1135.pdf