Light Verb Constructions in the SzegedParalellFX English--Hungarian Parallel Corpus

In this paper, we describe the first English-Hungarian parallel corpus annotated for light verb constructions, which contains 14,261 sentence alignment units. Annotation principles and statistical data on the corpus are also provided, and English and Hungarian data are contrasted. On the basis of corpus data, a database containing pairs of English-Hungarian light verb constructions has been created as well. The corpus and the database can contribute to the automatic detection of light verb constructions and it is also shown how they can enhance performance in several fields of NLP (e.g. parsing, information extraction/retrieval and machine translation).