Verb lemmatization and semantic verb classes in a Middle English corpus.
Michael Percillier · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2016
The paper describes the creation of new resources and associated tools in the framework of the research project Borrowing of Argument Structure in Contact Situations (BASICS), which investigates the borrowing of argument structures of verbs from Old French (OF) to Middle English (ME).The first resource is a database of ME form-lemma correspondences, on which a lemmatization process is based.This process also identifies French-based verbs and thus enables a first diachronic analysis of their prevalence in ME.The second item discussed is a newly developed method for querying ME verbs according to their semantic classes.The created resources and methods are crucial in the continuation of the research project, and can be applied to annotate further ME corpora and train other tools for the treatment of ME data.