Moritz Wittmann


2017

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Exploring Soft-Clustering for German (Particle) Verbs across Frequency Ranges
Moritz Wittmann | Maximilian Köper | Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) — Short papers

2016

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Graph-based Clustering of Synonym Senses for German Particle Verbs
Moritz Wittmann | Marion Weller-Di Marco | Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions

2014

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Automatic Extraction of Synonyms for German Particle Verbs from Parallel Data with Distributional Similarity as a Re-Ranking Feature
Moritz Wittmann | Marion Weller | Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

We present a method for the extraction of synonyms for German particle verbs based on a word-aligned German-English parallel corpus: by translating the particle verb to a pivot, which is then translated back, a set of synonym candidates can be extracted and ranked according to the respective translation probabilities. In order to deal with separated particle verbs, we apply re-ordering rules to the German part of the data. In our evaluation against a gold standard, we compare different pre-processing strategies (lemmatized vs. inflected forms) and introduce language model scores of synonym candidates in the context of the input particle verb as well as distributional similarity as additional re-ranking criteria. Our evaluation shows that distributional similarity as a re-ranking feature is more robust than language model scores and leads to an improved ranking of the synonym candidates. In addition to evaluating against a gold standard, we also present a small-scale manual evaluation.