A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items

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Author Beata Trawiński, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer, Frank Richter
Title A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items
Abstract We present a multilingual electronic database of lexical items with idiosyncratic occurrence patterns. Currently, our database consists of: (1) a collection of 444 bound words in German; (2) a collection of 77 bound words in English; (3) a collection of 58 negative polarity items in Romanian; (4) a collection of 84 negative polarity items in German; and (5) a collection of 52 positive polarity items in German. Our database is encoded in XML and is available via the Internet, offering dynamic and flexible access.
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@InProceedings{ELX08-148,
author = {Beata Trawiński, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer, Frank Richter },
title = {A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items},
pages = {1445-1451},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th EURALEX International Congress},
year = {2008},
month = {jul},
date = {15-19},
address = {Barcelona, Spain},
editor = {Elisenda Bernal, Janet DeCesaris},
publisher = {Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra},
isbn = {978-84-96742-67-3},
}
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