The Verb Argument Browser

Abstract

The Verb Argument Browser is a linguistically relevant corpus query tool, which can be used for investigating argument structure of verbs. The original tool was developed for Hungarian corpora but the methodology is claimed to be language independent because of the dependecy grammar based representation. This paper examines this language independency applying the methodology to a language with different structure, namely: Danish. We will see that the methodology can be applied straightforwardly, and the resulting tool shows the same properties as the original version. The Verb Argument Browser for Danish is available at http://corpus.nytud.hu/vabd (username: nodalida, password: vabd).

The Cognitive Motivation Behind the Semantics of Hungarian Co-Verbial Constructions with Össze and Szét

“…2 It is divided into five subcorpora by regional language variants and into five subcorpora by text genres. The objective behind the project was to create a balanced reference corpus of the present-day Hungarian language (Váradi, 2002;Sass, 2008). Since March 2008, HNC includes a separate Verb Argument Browser tool for investigating the argument structure of Hungarian verbs.…”

Methods of Linking Linguistic Resources for Semantic Role Labeling

“…To determine the real-life occurrence frequencies of various MMO verb frame types, we used the Verb Argument Browser (VAB) [19,20], a resource derived from the 180-million word Hungarian National Corpus [21]. The VAB contains analysis of 18.3 million finite verb clauses in which the finite verb and the heads of the nominal phrases that are either arguments of modifiers of the verb are annotated.…”

Semi-Compositional Noun+Verb Constructions: Theoretical Questions and Computational Linguistic Analyses

“…with the query zavar 'trouble' the following expressions can be also listed as hits: An illustrative example of tools enabling intelligent search in electronic corpora is called Mazsola (Sass, 2007;Sass, 2008;Sass, 2009), developed for the Hungarian National Corpus (Váradi, 2002). With its help, multiword expressions related to a given verb (i.e.…”

“…Sass (2010) developed a method to extract multiword verbs from parallel corpora, which is based on a former algorithm to collect verbs and their arguments from texts (Sass, 2008).…”

“…Needless to say, if syntactic information is used in identifying a multiword expression (as it is in e.g. Sass (2008;), the identification process cannot precede syntactic parsing. On the other hand, in most cases multiword expressions require special treatment at early levels of parsing as well -for instance, it is advisable for the syntactic parser to treat certain types of multiword expressions as one unit (compounds, semi-compositional constructions, multiword prepositions and conjunctions etc.…”