Cross-Lingual Induction for Deep Broad-Coverage Syntax: A Case Study on German Participles

This paper is a case study on cross-lingual induction of lexical resources for deep, broad-coverage syntactic analysis of German. We use a parallel corpus to induce a classifier for German participles which can predict their syntactic category. By means of this classifier, we induce a resource of adverbial participles from a huge monolingual corpus of German. We integrate the resource into a German LFG grammar and show that it improves parsing coverage while maintaining accuracy.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn, Christian Rohrer
• Keywords: Broad-coverage Syntactic Analysis, COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, German LFG Grammar, Huge Monolingual Corpus