Abstract
A verb-noun Multi-Word Expression (MWE) is a combination of a verb and a noun with or without other words, in which the combination has a meaning different from the meaning of the words considered separately. In this paper, we present a new lexical resource of Hebrew Verb-Noun MWEs (VN-MWEs). The VN-MWEs of this resource were manually collected and annotated from five different web resources. In addition, we analyze the lexical properties of Hebrew VN-MWEs by classifying them to three types: morphological, syntactic, and semantic. These two contributions are essential for designing algorithms for automatic VN-MWEs extraction. The analysis suggests some interesting features of VN-MWEs for exploration. The lexical resource enables to sample a set of positive examples for Hebrew VN-MWEs. This set of examples can either be used for training supervised algorithms or as seeds in unsupervised bootstrapping algorithms. Thus, this resource is a first step towards automatic identification of Hebrew VN-MWEs, which is important for natural language understanding, generation and translation systems.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1083
- 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:
- 522–527
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1083
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Chaya Liebeskind and Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner. 2016. A Lexical Resource of Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word Expressions. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 522–527, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- A Lexical Resource of Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word Expressions (Liebeskind & HaCohen-Kerner, LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ml4al-ingestion/L16-1083.pdf