Towards Lexical Encoding of Multi-Word Expressions in Spanish Dialects
Diana Bogantes, Eric Rodríguez, Alejandro Arauco, Alejandro Rodríguez, Agata Savary
Abstract
This paper describes a pilot study in lexical encoding of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in 4 Latin American dialects of Spanish: Costa Rican, Colombian, Mexican and Peruvian. We describe the variability of MWE usage across dialects. We adapt an existing data model to a dialect-aware encoding, so as to represent dialect-related specificities, while avoiding redundancy of the data common for all dialects. A dozen of linguistic properties of MWEs can be expressed in this model, both on the level of a whole MWE and of its individual components. We describe the resulting lexical resource containing several dozens of MWEs in four dialects and we propose a method for constructing a web corpus as a support for crowdsourcing examples of MWE occurrences. The resource is available under an open license and paves the way towards a large-scale dialect-aware language resource construction, which should prove useful in both traditional and novel NLP applications.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1358
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2255–2261
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1358
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Diana Bogantes, Eric Rodríguez, Alejandro Arauco, Alejandro Rodríguez, and Agata Savary. 2016. Towards Lexical Encoding of Multi-Word Expressions in Spanish Dialects. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2255–2261, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards Lexical Encoding of Multi-Word Expressions in Spanish Dialects (Bogantes et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nodalida-main-page/L16-1358.pdf