Jan Odijk, Martin Kroon, Tijmen Baarda, Ben Bonfil & Sheean Spoel. (2024, February 2). Annoting text corpora for multiword expressions [Conference presentation]. Grote Taaldag 2024, Utrecht University. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/customsites/avt/grote-taaldag-2024—book-of-abstracts-2.pdf
We report on work to convert the software underlying MWE-Finder (Odijk et al. to appear) into software to automatically enrich a text corpus with annotations for multiword expressions.
MWE-Finder (URL) is an application to search for a (flexible) multiword expressions in text corpora.
The annotation software enriches each sentence in a text corpus with annotations for MWEs that occur in the DUCAME resource, which contains 11k MWEs in canonical form (Odijk, 2023). The software underlying MWE-Finder automatically generates queries used to create the annotations. The annotations are in accordance with the PARSEME guidelines, though we will propose some extensions of these guidelines.
As a concrete example, in a sentence such as Daar kraait geen haan naar the generated MWE-query marks the verb kraait as VPC.full for the DUCAME MWE 0geen *haan zal naar iets kraaien, it marks the words haan and naar as component words of this MWE, and it adds the DUCAME ID of this MWE (DCM03515) to kraait.
References
[Odijk 2023] Jan Odijk. 2023. A Canonical Form for Dutch Multiword Expressions (Version 1.0).
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/2Maw8O0QTPH0oBP
[Odijk et al. to appear] Odijk, J., Kroon, M., Baarda, T., Bonfil, B., & Spoel, S. (to appear). MWE-finder: Querying
for multiword expressions in large Dutch text corpora. In V. Giouli & V. B. Mititelu (Eds.), Multiword expressions
in lexical resources: linguistic, lexicographic and computational perspectives. Language Science Press.