GeCzLex: Lexicon of Czech and German Anaphoric Connectives

Lucie Poláková, Kateřina Rysová, Magdaléna Rysová, Jiří Mírovský


Abstract
We introduce the first version of GeCzLex, an online electronic resource for translation equivalents of Czech and German discourse connectives. The lexicon is one of the outcomes of the research on anaphoricity and long-distance relations in discourse, it contains at present anaphoric connectives (ACs) for Czech and German connectives, and further their possible translations documented in bilingual parallel corpora (not necessarily anaphoric). As a basis, we use two existing monolingual lexicons of connectives: the Lexicon of Czech Discourse Connectives (CzeDLex) and the Lexicon of Discourse Markers (DiMLex) for German, interlink their relevant entries via semantic annotation of the connectives (according to the PDTB 3 sense taxonomy) and statistical information of translation possibilities from the Czech and German parallel data of the InterCorp project. The lexicon is, as far as we know, the first bilingual inventory of connectives with linkage on the level of individual entries, and a first attempt to systematically describe devices engaged in long-distance, non-local discourse coherence. The lexicon is freely available under the Creative Commons License.
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2020.lrec-1.137
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Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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1089–1096
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English
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Lucie Poláková, Kateřina Rysová, Magdaléna Rysová, and Jiří Mírovský. 2020. GeCzLex: Lexicon of Czech and German Anaphoric Connectives. In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1089–1096, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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GeCzLex: Lexicon of Czech and German Anaphoric Connectives (Poláková et al., LREC 2020)
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