Developing a Twi (Asante) Dictionary from Akan Interlinear Glossed Texts

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Dorothee Beermann, Lars Hellan, Pavel Mihaylov, Anna Struck

Traditionally, a lexicographer identifies the lexical items to be added to a dictionary.

Typical Sentences as a Resource for Valence

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Uwe Quasthoff, Lars Hellan, Erik K{\"o}rner, Thomas Eckart, Dirk Goldhahn, Dorothee Beermann

Verb valence information can be derived from corpora by using subcorpora of typical sentences that are constructed in a language independent manner based on frequent POS structures.

POS Sentence

MultiVal - towards a multilingual valence lexicon

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Lars Hellan, Dorothee Beermann, Tore Bruland, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, Montserrat Marimon

MultiVal is a valence lexicon derived from lexicons of computational HPSG grammars for Norwegian, Spanish and Ga (ISO 639-3, gaa), with altogether about 22, 000 verb entries and on average more than 200 valence types defined for each language.