A Linguistic Approach to English Phrasal Verbs

This presentation shows how a lexicon grammar dictionary of English phrasal verbs (PV) can be transformed into an electronic dictionary, in order to accurately identify PV in large corpora within the linguistic development environment, NooJ. The NooJ program is an alternative to statistical methods commonly used in NLP: all PV are listed in a dictionary and then located by means of a PV grammar in both continuous and discontinuous format. Results are then refined with a series of dictionaries, disambiguating grammars, filters, and other linguistics resources. The main advantage of such a program is that all PV can be identified, not just collocations of higher-than-normal frequency.