Abstract
We introduce DeQue, a lexicon covering French complex prepositions (CPRE) like “à partir de” (from) and complex conjunctions (CCONJ) like “bien que” (although). The lexicon includes fine-grained linguistic description based on empirical evidence. We describe the general characteristics of CPRE and CCONJ in French, with special focus on syntactic ambiguity. Then, we list the selection criteria used to build the lexicon and the corpus-based methodology employed to collect entries. Finally, we quantify the ambiguity of each construction by annotating around 100 sentences randomly taken from the FRWaC. In addition to its theoretical value, the resource has many potential practical applications. We intend to employ DeQue for treebank annotation and to train a dependency parser that can takes complex constructions into account.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1363
- 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:
- 2293–2298
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1363
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Carlos Ramisch, Alexis Nasr, André Valli, and José Deulofeu. 2016. DeQue: A Lexicon of Complex Prepositions and Conjunctions in French. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2293–2298, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- DeQue: A Lexicon of Complex Prepositions and Conjunctions in French (Ramisch et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/L16-1363.pdf