Corpus-based Method for Automatic Identiication of Support Verbs for Nominalizations

Gregory Grefenstette (1) , Simone Teufel

1 Inria Saclay - Ile de France

Nominalization is a highly productive phenomena in most languages. The process of nominaliza-tion ejects a verb from its syntactic role into a nominal position. The original verb is often replaced by a semantically emptied support verb (e.g., make a proposal). The choice of a support verb for a given nomi-nalization is unpredictable, causing a problem for language learners as well as for natural language processing systems. We present here a method of discovering support verbs from an untagged corpus via low-level syntactic processing and comparison of arguments attached to verbal forms and potential nom-inalized forms. The result of the process is a list of potential support verbs for the nominalized form of a given predicate.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Gregory Grefenstette, Simone Teufel. Corpus-based Method for Automatic Identiication of Support Verbs for Nominalizations. EACL'95, Mar 1995, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨hal-01154078⟩