Building a Multilingual Valency Lexicon
Speaker: Jana Sindlerova
Abstract:
In my talk I will present an ongoing project focused on building a multilingual valency lexicon. The initial goal of the project is to bring together, refine and interlink two already existing electronic valency dictionaries, PDT-Vallex (valency characteristics of selected Czech verbs) and EngValLex (valency characteristics of selected English verbs). These dictionaries are embedded in a parallel corpus, the so called Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank. The intended product should provide a) a dictionary of (rough) translational equivalents, b) important linguistic information about relations between valency characteristics of the equivalents (and possibly some more general information about the relation between verbal valency behaviour of the two language systems), and c) another device to be implemented into the proceeding experiments with automated machine translation.
