Automatic Recognition of Composite Verb Forms in Serbian

In this paper, we will present the work on building a shallow parser for recognizing composite verb forms in Serbian – the forms that consist of an auxiliary verb and a main verb. The parser is made in Unitex, a corpus processing software, in the form of local grammars that rely on using morphological dictionaries of Serbian. The model was tested on a small corpus of texts, both written in Serbian and translated into Serbian (total of 171 kw), in a few phases. In the current phase, the average result of 95,8% of well recognized units is achieved, with the translation of Jules Verne’s Around the world in 80 days giving the best results (98,8%), and a short story by Ivo Andrić, A Vacation in the South, giving the worst (91,7%).