GeCzLex: Lexicon of Czech and German Anaphoric Connectives

Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), pages 1089–1096 Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 c⃝ European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC 1089 GeCzLex: Lexicon of Czech and German Anaphoric Connectives Lucie Pol´akov´a, Kateˇrina Rysov´a, Magdal´ena Rysov´a, Jiˇr´ı M´ırovsk´y Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Malostransk´e n´am. 25 Prague, Czech Republic {polakova, rysova, magdalena.rysova, mirovsky}@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Abstract We introduce the first version of GeCzLex, an online electronic resource for translation equivalents of Czech and German discourse connectives. The lexicon is one of the outcomes of the research on anaphoricity and long-distance relations in discourse, it contains at present anaphoric connectives (ACs) for Czech and German connectives, and further their possible translations documented in bilingual parallel corpora (not necessarily anaphoric). As a basis, we use two existing monolingual lexicons of connectives: the Lexicon of Czech Discourse Connectives (CzeDLex) and the Lexicon of Discourse Markers (DiMLex) for German, interlink their relevant entries via semantic annotation of the connectives (according to the PDTB 3 sense taxonomy) and statistical information of translation possibilities from the Czech and German parallel data of the InterCorp project. The lexicon is, as far as we know, the first bilingual inventory of connectives with linkage on the level of individual entries, and a first attempt to systematically describe devices engaged in long-distance, non-local discourse coherence. The lexicon is freely available under the Creative Commons License. Keywords: discourse connectives, bilingual lexicon, anaphoricity, Czech, German 1. Introduction Recent years witnessed a boom in the development of electronic resources describing discourse relational devices (DRDs), or, more specifically, discourse markers and con- nectives in different languages (e.g. Feltracco et al. (2016), Mendes and Lejeune (2016), Das et al. (2018)). Ef- forts in this area were largely supported by the TextLink initiative,1 which brought together discourse-oriented re- searchers from across Europe and some other countries. During the last two years, the first ones of these monolin- gual connective lexicons have been interlinked, and those developed later on then incrementally added, resulting in Connective-Lex, a multilingual connective database (Stede et al., 2019). Currently, Connective-Lex gathers lexicons for nine languages,2 with their entries linked by the seman- tic taxonomy adopted by all the monolingual lexicons, the Penn Discourse Treebank 3 tagset (Webber et al., 2016). However, a further, linguistically and technically demand- ing step in such a database would be the linkage of entries on the level of individual translation equivalents among the represented languages. In this paper, we introduce an online bilingual connective lexicon for Czech and German discourse connectives, GeC- zLex, based, just like Connective-Lex, on the monolingual CzeDLex (for Czech, M´ırovsk´y et al. (2017a), updated 2019) and DiMLex (for German, the newest version Schef- fler and Stede (2016)), but in addition linked on the level of individual lexicon entries, providing translation equiv- alents of each lexicon entry into the second language and vice versa. In its current state, the lexicon is a part of re- search on anaphoricity in Czech and German …

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