In this paper, we focus on various methods for detecting verbal collocations, i.e. verb-particle constructions and light verb constructions in Wikipedia articles. Our results suggest that for verb-particle constructions, POS-tagging and restriction on the particle seem to yield the best result whereas the combination of POS-tagging, syntactic information and restrictions on the nominal and verb...

In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of verb-particle constructions, discussing their characteristics and the challenges that they present for a computational grammar. We concentrate our discussion on the treatment adopted in a wide-coverage HPSG grammar: the LinGO ERG. Given the constantly growing number of verb-particle combinations, possible ways of extending this treatment are invest...

German particle verbs, like anblicken (to gaze at) combine a base verb (blicken) with a particle (an) to form a special kind of Multi Word Expression. Particle verbs may share the semantics of the base verb and the particle to a variable degree. However, while syntactic subcategorization frames tend to be good predictor for the semantics of verbs in general (verbs that are similar in meaning al...

Introduction and previous work A number of papers in the quantitative syntax literature have proposed that semantic dependencies between words affect their relative order in a sentence [13, 15]. This idea is an extension of the very general principle stating that (syntactically) related words tend to occur next to each other [4]. This principle is known under various names in syntax and in the ...

This research highlights the letters of meanings that actually confirm (Tajzim) one verb i.e. (LAM, LAMMA, LAM AL-AMR, LA AL-NAHYA AL-JAZM), it studies them in two respects: first: a grammatical study so deals with from depths books and shows their work provisions each letter. The second is semantic point view mentions its meanings. These are applied to Al-Targhib Al-Tarhib, as book included ma...

Manually maintaining comprehensive databases of multi-word expressions, for example Verb-Particle Constructions (VPCs), is infeasible. We describe a new type level classifier for potential VPCs, which uses information in the Google Web1T corpus to perform a simple linguistic constituency test. Specifically, we consider the fronting test, comparing the frequencies of the two possible orderings o...

German particle verbs are a type of multi word expression which is often compositional with respect to a base verb. If they are compositional they tend to express the same types of semantic arguments, but they do not necessarily express them in the same syntactic subcategorization frame: some arguments may be expressed by differing syntactic subcategorization slots and other arguments may be on...

With regard to the splitting of the verb-particle complex, the behaviour of English PV's differs from that of their German, Dutch, and Scandinavian counterparts. It is assumed in generative circles that the complex verb is base-generated in the VP-fmal position in the V2-1anguages German and Dutch. In V2 contexts such as main clauses the verb obligatorily moves syntactically into the highest fu...

In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of verb-particle constructions, discussing their characteristics and their availability for use with NLP systems. We concentrate in particular on the coverage provided by some electronic resources. Given the constantly growing number of verb-particle combinations, possible ways of extending the coverage of the available resources are investigated, tak...