We introduce work on the detection of definitory contexts designed to speed up two lexicographical tasks: searching for the exact meaning(s) of terms and providing usable input for paraphrasing. Our database is built from a specialized web corpus using a robust pattern-based extraction method. The corresponding interface displays information for a large range of lexical units. The contributions of this article are threefold: we describe both acquisition and extraction, provide a qualitative assessment of the method, and present an interface to access the data.
@InProceedings{BARBARESI18.668, author = {Adrien Barbaresi and Lothar Lemnitzer and Alexander Geyken}, title = "{A database of German definitory contexts from selected web sources}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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