B. Zeller and S. Pado: Corpus-Based Acquisition of Support Verb Constructions for Portuguese. Proceedings of PROPOR 2012, Coimbra. Springer LNCS 7243/2012, 73-84, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_8

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We present a resource-poor approach to automatically ac- quire support verb constructions (SVCs) for Portuguese with a two-stage procedure. First, we apply a cross-lingual approach with a bilingual par- allel corpus: starting with a Portuguese full verb, we use the translations into another language and the corresponding backtranslations to identify Portuguese verb-noun pairs with the same meaning. Since not all of these are SVCs, the candidates are ranked and filtered in a second, monolingual step based on association statistics. We discuss two parametrisations of our procedure for a high-precision and a high-recall setting. In our experiments, these parametrizations achieve a maximum precision of 91% and a maximum recall of 86%, respectively.

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@incollection {springerlink:10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_8,
   author = {Zeller, Britta and Padó, Sebastian},
    title = {Corpus-Based Acquisition of Support Verb Constructions for Portuguese},
   booktitle = {Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language},
   series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   editor = {Caseli, Helena and Villavicencio, Aline and Teixeira, António and Perdigão, Fernando},
   publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
   pages = {73-84},
   volume = {7243},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_8},
   year = {2012}
}