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Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval

Zehentner, Eva; Hundt, Marianne; Schneider, Gerold; Röthlisberger, Melanie (2023). Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28(3):378-406.

Abstract

Prepositional phrases (PPs) play an important part in English argument structure constructions, but pose considerable challenges for linguistic investigations of any kind. In addition to the fact that PP-attachment is generally notoriously difficult to model computationally, a particularly striking methodological challenge in investigating verb-dependent PPs across (synchronic and/or diachronic) corpora is that such cross-corpus studies may have to rely on material annotated with different tools. This study evaluates the impact that such differences in corpus annotation may have on retrieval of verb-attached PPs by means of data from Early and Late Modern English corpora. Our intrinsic (recall/precision) and extrinsic parser evaluation shows that annotation does play a role, but that the noise introduced is negligible as far as frequency developments are concerned.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > English Department
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
08 Research Priority Programs > Language and Space
Dewey Decimal Classification:410 Linguistics
820 English & Old English literatures
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Uncontrolled Keywords:Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics
Language:English
Date:19 July 2023
Deposited On:30 Jan 2024 08:53
Last Modified:30 Dec 2024 02:54
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing
ISSN:1384-6655
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21104.zeh

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