Verbal Valency and Japhug / Tibetan Language Contact

Verbal Valency Frame Detection and Selection in Czech and English

We present a supervised learning method for verbal valency frame detection and selection, i.e., a specific kind of word sense disambiguation for verbs based on subcategorization information, which amounts to detecting mentions of events in text. We use the rich dependency annotation present in the Prague Dependency Treebanks for Czech and English, taking advantage of several analysis tools (tag...

Enhancing the ElixirFM Lexicon with Verbal Valency Frames

This paper reports on the status of our ongoing project to extend, refine, and maintain the lexicon of the ElixirFM system. The latest release of ElixirFM has been enriched with valency frames for selected verbal lexemes. We briefly outline some other similar projects for Modern Standard Arabic and present crucial axioms of the approach we have adopted, which is Functional Generative Descriptio...

Verbal Valency in the MT Between Related Languages

The paper analyzes the differences in verbal valency frames between two related Slavic languages, Czech and Russian, with regard to their role in a machine translation system. The valency differences are a frequent source of translation errors. The results presented in the paper show that the number of substantially different valency frames is relatively low and that a bilingual valency diction...

Language Change and Language Contact

Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong