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| Title | Evaluating a German Sketch Grammar: A Case Study on Noun Phrase Case |
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| Authors | Kremena Ivanova, Ulrich Heid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Adam Kilgarriff and Jan Pomikalek |
| Abstract | Word sketches are part of the Sketch Engine corpus query system. They represent automatic, corpus-derived summaries of the words’ grammatical and collocational behaviour. Besides the corpus itself, word sketches require a sketch grammar, a regular expression-based shallow grammar over the part-of-speech tags, to extract evidence for the properties of the targeted words from the corpus. The paper presents a sketch grammar for German, a language which is not strictly configurational and which shows a considerable amount of case syncretism, and evaluates its accuracy, which has not been done for other sketch grammars. The evaluation focuses on NP case as a crucial part of the German grammar. We present various versions of NP definitions, so demonstrating the influence of grammar detail on precision and recall. |
| Language | Single language |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Grammars, Syntax |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{IVANOVA08.537, author = {Kremena Ivanova, Ulrich Heid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Adam Kilgarriff and Jan Pomikalek}, title = {Evaluating a German Sketch Grammar: A Case Study on Noun Phrase Case}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |