A Distributional Memory for German
Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt · 2012
This paper describes the creation of a Distri-butional Memory (Baroni and Lenci 2010) resource for German. Distributional Mem-ory is a generalized distributional resource for lexical semantics that does not have to commit to a particular vector space at the time of creation. We induce a resource from a German corpus, following the original de-sign decisions as closely as possible, and discuss the steps necessary for a new lan-guage. We evaluate the German DM model on a synonym selection task, finding that it can compete with existing models. 1