Automatic Extraction of Subcategorization Frames for Czech

We present some novel machine learning techniques for the identification of subcategorization information for verbs in Czech. We compare three different statistical techniques applied to this problem. We show how the learning algorithm can be used to discover previously unknown subcategorization frames from the Czech Prague Dependency Treebank. The algorithm can then be used to label dependents of a verb in the Czech treebank as either arguments or adjuncts. Using our techniques, we are able to achieve 88% precision on unseen parsed text.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Anoop Sarkar, Daniel Zeman
• Keywords: COLING 2000, COLING 2008, Czech Treebank, Machine Learning Techniques, Prague Dependency Treebank