Subcategorisation Acquisition from Raw Text for a Free Word-Order Language

Will Roberts, Markus Egg, Valia Kordoni · 2014

We describe a state-of-the-art automatic system that can acquire subcategorisation frames from raw text for a free word-order language.We use it to construct a subcategorisation lexicon of German verbs from a large Web page corpus.With an automatic verb classification paradigm we evaluate our subcategorisation lexicon against a previous classification of German verbs; the lexicon produced by our system performs better than the best previous results.

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