Parts of Speech in NovaMorf, A New Morphological Annotation of Czech

Petkevič, Vladimír; Hlaváčová, Jaroslava; Osolsobě, Klára; Svášek, Martin; Šimandl, Josef

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“…However, the crucial principle of the classification at the 2 nd tag position is the morphological one. As already mentioned, the value of the 2 nd position serves as an indicator of the applicability of the other tagged categories (such as gender, number, and case) and this principle is decisive for the system of pronouns and numerals in PDT-C. 3 This means that, for example, a numeral expressing agreement in grammatical gender (e.g., jeden, jedna, jedno 'one') cannot be in the same group as a numeral that behaves as a noun in that it has a single, fixed gender (e.g., sto 'hundred') or does not express any gender (e.g., tři 'three') although according to the semantic criterion, such numerals may belong to the same category (the numerals jeden, sto and tři are all cardinal numerals; cf. Tab.…”

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Capturing Numerals and Pronouns at the Morphological Layer in the Prague Dependency Treebanks of Czech

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2021

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný Casopis

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The paper presents a novel and unified morphological description of numerals and pronouns, as compiled for the newest edition of the Prague Dependency Treebank (Prague Dependency Treebank – Consolidated 1.0) and its integral part the morphological dictionary MorfFlex. On the basis of considerable experience with real data annotation and the use of the morphological dictionary, particular changes were proposed. For both of the parts of speech a new set of subtypes was proposed, based mainly on the morphological criterion and its combination with semantic properties and other relevant features, such as definiteness in numerals and possessivity, reflexivity, and clitichood in pronouns. Each subtype has a specific value at the 2nd position of the morphological tag, which serves also as an indicator of the applicability of other tag categories.

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“…In the NovaMorph morphological description[3] words of this type are included in a group of fractional numerals 2. Komárek united these semantically similar words into one group of "deictic words"[4].…”

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Capturing Numerals and Pronouns at the Morphological Layer in the Prague Dependency Treebanks of Czech

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“…There are also other approaches to Czech morphology, most notably the NovaMorf project [12] and Universal Dependencies (UD) [11]. However, NovaMorf is still in its specification phase, while in MorfFlex we are bound by the already annotated corpus (PDT), and it is not yet clear if a conversion (both ways) can be lossless.…”

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Modifications of the Czech Morphological Dictionary for Consistent Corpus Annotation

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We describe systematic changes that have been made to the Czech morphological dictionary related to annotating new data within the project of Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). We bring new solutions to several complicated morphological features that occur in Czech texts. We introduced two new parts of speech, namely foreign word and segment. We adopted new principles for morphological analysis of global and inflectional variants, homonymous lemmas, abbreviations and aggregates. The changes were initiated by the need of consistency between the data and the dictionary and of the dictionary itself.

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“…Czech is a morphologically rich language, which means that individual words change form depending on their particular role in the sentence, thus enabling a (mostly) flexible word order (Veselovská, 2018). There is a particularly high degree of case syncretism in nominal paradigms (Petkevič, 2006), or in other words, Czech has seven distinct noun cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, and instrumental. Czech also has four genders (masculine inanimate, masculine animate, feminine, and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), and a pattern of perfect/imperfect verb forms.…”

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Is there a core general vocabulary for Czech? Introducing the Czech General Service List

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The current study presents the Czech General Service List (CGSL), which was designed to capture the core vocabulary of written and spoken Czech which is useful to Czech as a second language learners (CSLLs). The CGSL is a result of robust comparison of five Czech language corpora (SYN2020, csTenTen17, Koditex, ORALv1, and ORTOFONv2) containing over 12 billion running words. These five corpora represent a variety of corpus sizes, designs, and text types of both written and spoken Czech. This study investigates the overlap between the top 10,000 words in these corpora based on their normalized average reduced frequency (ARFn), which is a measure that takes into consideration both frequency and dispersion. This study also investigates the overlap and rank correlation between words from the written and spoken corpora, respectively. Significant differences were found between words used in written and spoken Czech, so the CGSL was built to contain three types of words: 1) core words of Czech, 2) core words of written Czech, and 3) core words of spoken Czech. Finally, this study compared the words on the CGSL to words on pedagogical wordlists from Czech textbooks designed for L1 English speaking CSLLs and found there to be significant differences between the two. This suggests that future CSL materials informed by the CGSL might have a different effect on Czech learning than the currently existing CSL materials. CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTIONCzech is an important world language which presents unique challenges for learners who speak English as a first language (L1), including the acquisition of new vocabulary. This study opens a scholarly discussion about how corpus-based methods and data can help Czech as a second language learners (CSLLs) to prioritize core vocabulary items from written and spoken Czech. The theories, questions, and methodologies used in this study are also applicable to other less-commonly taught languages which currently lack corpus-based pedagogical materials and approaches to learning.According to Nation, a leading scholar on second language (L2) vocabulary research and a major contributor to the literature on this topic (Coxhead, 2010), the first goal of L2 vocabulary learning should be to know which vocabulary is useful for learners (Nation, 2013). Recent pedagogically motivated vocabulary research connects usefulness for learners with frequency information as opposed to native speaker intuition (Alderson, 2007;Gardner & Davies, 2014;Garnier & Schmitt, 2015;Lei & Liu, 2016). Receptive and productive knowledge of L2 words correlate with word frequency, and frequent words are encountered and used more often by learners (Ellis, 2014;Garnier & Schmitt, 2015).Brezina and Gablasova (2015) agree that while "word frequency alone is not a reliable measure for selecting words important for learners" (p. 3), it is possible to quantify a word's importance for learners by measuring its frequency, dispersion within a corpus, and dispersion across multiple large language corpora representing a variety of situational ...

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Parts of Speech in NovaMorf, A New Morphological Annotation of Czech

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Capturing Numerals and Pronouns at the Morphological Layer in the Prague Dependency Treebanks of Czech

Capturing Numerals and Pronouns at the Morphological Layer in the Prague Dependency Treebanks of Czech

Modifications of the Czech Morphological Dictionary for Consistent Corpus Annotation

Is there a core general vocabulary for Czech? Introducing the Czech General Service List

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