<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Microsyntax is a linguistic discipline dealing with idiomatic elements whose important properties are strongly related to syntax. In a way, these elements may be viewed as transitional entities between the lexicon and the grammar, which explains why they are often underrepresented in both of these resource types: the lexicographer fails to see such elements as full-fledged lexical units, while the grammarian finds them too specific to justify the creation of individual well-developed rules. As a result, such elements are poorly covered by linguistic models used in advanced modern computational linguistic tasks like high-quality machine translation or deep semantic analysis. A possible way to mend the situation and improve the coverage and adequate treatment of microsyntactic units in linguistic resources is to develop corpora with microsyntactic annotation, closely linked to specially designed lexicons. The paper shows how this task is solved in the deeply annotated corpus of Russian, SynTagRus.</p></abstract>

Microsyntax is a linguistic discipline dealing with idiomatic elements whose important properties are strongly related to syntax. In a way, these elements may be viewed as transitional entities between the lexicon and the grammar, which explains why they are often underrepresented in both of these resource types: the lexicographer fails to see such elements as full-fledged lexical units, while the grammarian finds them too specific to justify the creation of individual well-developed rules. As a result, such elements are poorly covered by linguistic models used in advanced modern computational linguistic tasks like high-quality machine translation or deep semantic analysis. A possible way to mend the situation and improve the coverage and adequate treatment of microsyntactic units in linguistic resources is to develop corpora with microsyntactic annotation, closely linked to specially designed lexicons. The paper shows how this task is solved in the deeply annotated corpus of Russian, SynTagRus.

Microsyntactic Annotation of Corpora and its Use in Computational Linguistics Tasks

A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Microsyntax is a linguistic discipline dealing with idiomatic elements whose important properties are strongly related to syntax. In a way, these elements may...

Microsyntactic Annotation of Corpora and its Use in Computational Linguistics Tasks

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 169 - 178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0027

Keywords
Text corpora, Russian syntactically tagged corpus SynTagRus, syntactic idioms, microsyntactic annotation, microsyntactic dictionary

© 2017 Leonid Iomdin, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Microsyntactic Annotation of Corpora and its Use in Computational Linguistics Tasks

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 169 - 178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0027

KeywordsText corpora, Russian syntactically tagged corpus SynTagRus, syntactic idioms, microsyntactic annotation, microsyntactic dictionary

© 2017 Leonid Iomdin, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Text corpora, Russian syntactically tagged corpus SynTagRus, syntactic idioms, microsyntactic annotation, microsyntactic dictionary