Towards a Large Parallel Corpus of Cleft Constructions
Gerlof Bouma, Lilja Øvrelid, Jonas Kuhn · 2010
We present our efforts to create a large-scale, semi-automatically annotated parallel corpus of cleft constructions.The corpus is intended to reduce or make more effective the manual task of finding examples of clefts in a corpus.The corpus is being developed in the context of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 632, which is a large, interdisciplinary research initiative to study information structure.We show how state-of-the-art NLP tools, like POS taggers and statistical dependency parsers, may facilitate powerful and precise searches, and we demonstrate through preliminary empirical findings how such a resource may provide new opportunities for the linguistic research of cleft constructions.