Automatic Annotation of Verbal Collocations in Modern Greek

Abstract

Abstract. Identifying multiword expressions (MWEs) in a sentence and performi ng the syntactic analysis of the sentence are interrelated processes. In our approach, priority is given to parsing alternatives involving collocations, and hence collocational information helps the parser through the maze of alternatives, with the aim to lead to substantial improvements in the performance of both tasks (collocation identification and parsing), and in that of a subsequent task (automatic annotation). In this paper, we are going to present our system and the procedure that we have followed in order to proceed to the automatic annotation of Greek verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs) in running texts.