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title = "Identifying equivalents of specialized verbs in a bilingual comparable corpus of judgments: A frame-based methodology",
author = "Pimentel, Janine",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/245_Paper.pdf",
pages = "1791--1798",
abstract = "Multilingual terminological resources do not always include the equivalents of specialized verbs that occur in legal texts. This study aims to bridge that gap by proposing a methodology to assign the equivalents of this kind of predicative units. We use a comparable corpus of judgments produced by the Supreme Court of Canada and by the Supremo Tribunal de Justi{\c{c}}a de Portugal. From this corpus, 200 English and Portuguese verbs are selected. The description of the verbs is based on the theory of Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1977, 1977, 1982, 1985) as well as on the FrameNet methodology (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010). Specialized verbs are said to evoke a semantic frame, a sort of conceptual scenario in which a number of mandatory elements play specific roles (e.g. the role of judge, the role of defendant). Given that semantic frames are language independent to a fair degree (Boas 2005; Baker 2009), the labels attributed to each of the 76 identified frames (e.g. [Crime], [Regulations]) were used to group together 165 pairs of candidate equivalents. 71{\%} of them are full equivalents, whereas 29{\%} are only partial equivalents.",
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[Identifying equivalents of specialized verbs in a bilingual comparable corpus of judgments: A frame-based methodology](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/245_Paper.pdf) (Pimentel, LREC 2012)
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