Phrasal verbs (PVs) are notably essential for English language learners due to their common use in spoken and informal written language; however, as a foreign (EFL) may find it difficult master phrasal verbs, not only at receptive but also productive levels. The syntactic semantic complexities prove much more troublesome academic writing those whose mother tongue does feature verb formations. T...

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In this paper, we present an efficient semiautomatic method for annotating English phrasal verbs on the OntoNotes corpus. Our method first constructs a phrasal verb dictionary based on Wiktionary, then annotates each candidate example on the corpus as an either a phrasal verb usage or a literal one. For efficient annotation, we use the dependency structure of a sentence to filter out highly pla...

This paper examines the current performance of the stochastic tagger PARTS (Church 88) in handling phrasal verbs, describes a problem that arises from the statistical model used, and suggests a way to improve the tagger's performance. The solution involves a change in the definition of what counts as a word for the purpose of tagging phrasal verbs. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N Statistical taggers...

This work describes an experimental evaluation of the significance of phrasal verb treatment for obtaining better quality statistical machine translation (SMT) results. The importance of the detection and special treatment of phrasal verbs is measured in the context of SMT, where the word-for-word translation of these units often produces incoherent results. Two ways of integrating phrasal verb...