Identifying Phrasal Verbs Using Many Bilingual Corpora
Karl Pichotta, John DeNero · 2013
We address the problem of identifying multiword expressions in a language, focusing on English phrasal verbs.Our polyglot ranking approach integrates frequency statistics from translated corpora in 50 different languages.Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that combining statistical evidence from many parallel corpora using a novel ranking-oriented boosting algorithm produces a comprehensive set of English phrasal verbs, achieving performance comparable to a human-curated set. *Research conducted during an internship at Google.