Principal investigator (ÚFAL): 
Provider: 
Grant id: 
GA17-07313S
ÚFAL budget: 
3 349 tis.
Duration: 
2017-2019

CzEngClass

Contextually-based synonymy and valency of verbs in a bilingual setting

The project focuses on contextually-based synonymy and valency of verbs in a bilingual setting. The analysis of semantic ‘equivalence’ (synonymy or near synonymy) of verb senses, and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources is the core of the proposed research. Using the translational context supports more language-independent specification of properties of verb sense classes of synonyms and leads towards generalization across languages. An initial sample bilingual verb lexicon of classes representing synonym or near-synonym pairs of verbs (verb senses) based on richly annotated corpora and existing lexical resources will be created. The main contribution of the project will be a deeper insight from the bilingual perspective into the topic of verb meaning in context based on the Functional Generative Description theory, thus extending it towards appropriate description of contextually-based verb synonymy.

The project continues as "SynSemClass" at https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/synsemclass.

Publications

  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva: CzEngClass – Towards a Lexicon of verb Synonyms with Valency linked to Semantic Roles. In: Jazykovedný časopis / Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 68, No. 2, Copyright © SAP – Slovak Academic Press, ISSN 0021-5597, pp. 364-371, 2017
  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva, Hajič Jan: A CROSS-LINGUAL SYNONYM CLASSES LEXICON. In: Prace Filologiczne, Vol. LXXII, Copyright © Uniwersytet Warszawski, ISSN 0138-0567, pp. 405-418, 2018
  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva, Hajič Jan: Creating a Verb Synonym Lexicon Based on a Parallel Corpus. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Copyright © European Language Resources Association, Paris, France, ISBN 979-10-95546-00-9, pp. 1432-1437, 2018
  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva, Hajič Jan: Defining Verbal Synonyms: between Syntax and Semantics. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2018), Copyright © Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköping, Sweden, ISBN 978-91-7685-137-1, ISSN 1650-3740, pp. 75-90, 2018
  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva, Hajič Jan: Synonymy in Bilingual Context: The CzEngClass Lexicon. In: Proceedings of The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Copyright © ICCL, Sheffield, GB, ISBN 978-4-87974-703-7, pp. 2456-2469, 2018
  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva, Hajič Jan: Tools for Building an Interlinked Multilingual Synonym Lexicon Network. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Copyright © European Language Resources Association, Paris, France, ISBN 979-10-95546-00-9, pp. 850-856, 2018
  • Urešová Zdeňka, Fučíková Eva, Hajičová Eva, Hajič Jan: Meaning and Semantic Roles in CzEngClass Lexicon. In: Jazykovedný časopis / Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 70, No. 2, Copyright © SAP – Slovak Academic Press, Bratislava, Slovakia, ISSN 0021-5597, pp. 403-411, Oct 2019