Using the Text Corpus to Create a Comprehensive List of Phrasal Verbs
Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek · 2002
The paper describes extraction of Estonian multi-word verbs from text corpora, using a language-and task-specific software tool SENVA, which is based on a statistical language-independent software tool SENTA (Dias et al, 2000).The outcome is a comprehensive list of 16,000 phrasal verbs.We describe the extraction tool, manual post-editing principles, and evaluate the outcome in terms of precision and recall, comparing the results with man-made electronic dictionaries, and with the results of a manual extraction experiment of a sub-set of the MWV-s. . 1 We use the term phrasal verb here to denote what is multi-word lexical verb in English grammars; we use the latter term in the rest of the paper for clarity.