“Inheritance” Relations in Corpora: their Extraction and Implications for Dictionaries

Abstract

This study describes a semi-automatic approach to the classification of predicates based on their subcategorisation properties. German predicates subcategorizing for a subordinate clause are automatically extracted from text corpora and classified according to their subcategorisation. We analyse and compare subcategorisation properties of morphologically related predicates (verbs, deverbal nouns and multiwords which contain a nominalisation) and try to classify them according to their relations. We show that our approach can be applied in natural language processing, especially in lexicon creation.

Keywords

• lexical data acquisition
• subcategorisation
• predicate-argument structure
• corpus-based classification
• lexicon creation