How to pick out token instances of English verb-particle constructions

We propose a method for automatically identifying individual instances of English verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in raw text. Our method employs the RASP parser and analysis of the sentential context of each VPC candidate to differentiate VPCs from simple combinations of a verb and prepositional phrase. We show that our proposed method has an F-score of 0.974 at VPC identification over the Brown Corpus and Wall Street Journal.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: LRE
• Authors: Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin
• Keywords: English Verb-particle Constructions, LRE 2010, Programming Languages, VPC Candidate, Wall Street Journal