Exploiting translational correspondences for pattern-independent MWE identification

  • Authors:
  • Sina Zarrieß;Jonas Kuhn

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Potsdam, Germany;University of Potsdam, Germany

  • Venue:
  • MWE '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Based on a study of verb translations in the Europarl corpus, we argue that a wide range of MWE patterns can be identified in translations that exhibit a correspondence between a single lexical item in the source language and a group of lexical items in the target language. We show that these correspondences can be reliably detected on dependency-parsed, word-aligned sentences. We propose an extraction method that combines word alignment with syntactic filters and is independent of the structural pattern of the translation.