Detecting a continuum of compositionality in phrasal verbs

Authors:
Diana McCarthy;Bill Keller;John Carroll
Affiliations:
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Venue:
MWE '03 Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 18
Year:
2003

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Abstract

We investigate the use of an automatically acquired thesaurus for measures designed to indicate the compositionality of candidate multiword verbs, specifically English phrasal verbs identified automatically using a robust parser. We examine various measures using the nearest neighbours of the phrasal verb, and in some cases the neighbours of the simplex counterpart and show that some of these correlate significantly with human rankings of compositionality on the test set. We also show that whilst the compositionality judgements correlate with some statistics commonly used for extracting multiwords, the relationship is not as strong as that using the automatically constructed thesaurus.