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VALLEX is a linguistically annotated lexicon aiming at a description of syntactic information which is supposed to be useful for NLP. The lexicon contains roughly 2500 manually annotated Czech verbs with over 6000 valency frames (summer 2005). In this paper we introduce VALLEX and describe an experiment where VALLEX frames were assigned to 10,000 corpus instances of 100 Czech verbs – the pairwise inter-annotator agreement reaches 75%. The part of the data where three human annotators agreed were used for an automatic word sense disambiguation task, in which we achieved the precision of 78.5%.
The research reported in this paper has been partially supported by the grant of Grant Agency of Czech Republic No. 405/04/0243 and by the projects of Information Society No 1ET100300517 and 1ET101470416.
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Lopatková, M., Bojar, O., Semecký, J., Benešová, V., Žabokrtský, Z. (2005). Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs VALLEX: Recent Experiments with Frame Disambiguation. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3658. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551874_13
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