A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items
Beata Trawiński, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer, Frank Richter · Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language) · 2008
The authors present a multilingual electronic database of lexical items with idiosyncratic occurrence patterns. Currently, our database consists of: (1) a collection of 444 bound words in German; (2) a collection of 77 bound words in English; (3) a collection of 58 negative polarity items in Romanian; (4) a collection of 84 negative polarity items in German; and (5) a collection of 52 positive polarity items in German. The database is encoded in XML and is available via the Internet, offering dynamic and flexible access.