Cross-lingual variation of light verb constructions: using parallel corpora and automatic alignment for linguistic research

Authors:
Tanja Samardžić;Paola Merlo
Affiliations:
University of Geneva;University of Geneva
Venue:
NLPLING '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Cross-lingual parallelism and small-scale language variation have recently become subject of research in both computational and theoretical linguistics. In this article, we use a parallel corpus and an automatic aligner to study English light verb constructions and their German translations. We show that parallel corpus data can provide new empirical evidence for better understanding the properties of light verbs. We also study the influence that the identified properties of light verb constructions have on the quality of their automatic alignment in a parallel corpus. We show that, even though characterised by limited compositionality, these constructions can be aligned better than fully compositional phrases, due to an interaction between the type of light verb construction and its frequency.