Automatic extraction of subcorpora based on subcategorization frames from a part-of-speech tagged corpus
Susanne Gahl · 1998
This paper presents a method for extracting subcorpora documenting different subcategorization frames for verbs, nouns, and adjectives in the 100 mio.word British National Corpus.The extraction tool consists of a set of batch files for use with the Corpus Query Processor (CQP), which is part of the IMS corpus workbench (cf.Christ 1994a,b).A macroprocessor has been developed that allows the user to specify in a simple input file which subcorpora are to be created for a given lemma.The resulting subcorpora can be used (1) to provide evidence for the subcategorization properties of a given lemma, and to facilitate the selection of corpus lines for lexicographic research, and (2) to determine the frequencies of different syntactic contexts of each lemma.