Towards the Automatic Acquisition of a Valence Dictionary for Polish

This article presents the evaluation of a valence dictionary for Polish produced with the help of shallow parsing techniques and compares those results to earlier results involving deep parsing. We show that the valence dictionary obtained with the use of shallow parsing attains higher quality when it is measured on the basis of a corpus of valence frames, while the dictionary produced with the help of deep parsing seems superior when the results are compared to existing valence dictionaries. Key words: valence acquisition, arguments of verbs, evaluation of valence dictionaries, partial parsing, IPI PAN Corpus of Polish 1 Aim and Scope The valence of a given lexeme is, in general terms, its combinatorial potential, i.e., its ability to combine with other constituents of the utterance. In practice the term valence (or valency) usually refers to verbal lexemes, and it denotes the number and morphosyntactic makeup of the arguments of the verb. Hence, a valence dictionary will contain the ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: BIRTHDAY
• Authors: Adam Przepiórkowski
• Keywords: Applied Computing, BIRTHDAY 2009, Deep Parsing, Valence Dictionaries, Valence Dictionary