Preliminary Experiments concerning Verbal Predicative Structure Extraction from a Large Finnish Corpus
Guersande Chaminade, Thierry Poibeau · 2017
This paper presents different experiments aiming at automatically extracting lexical information from corpora.We first describe a simple experiment on the nature of direct objects in Finnish (partitive vs total objects) so as to check if data automatically extracted from corpora support traditional studies in the field.Which are the verbs subcategorizing partitive objects?Which are the verbs subcategorizing (more frequently) total objects?We provide a tool and a user interface to browse data automatically collected from a large corpus in order to make it possible to answer this question.We then describe some ongoing work aiming at adapting to Finnish a complex lexical acquisition system initially developed for Japanese [1].In our approach, following up on studies in natural language processing and linguistics, we embrace the double hypothesis: i) of a continuum between ambiguity and vagueness, and ii) of a continuum between arguments and adjuncts.We describe the system developed for the task and conclude with some perspectives for the evaluation of the produced resource.