Timm Lichte


2020

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Supervised Disambiguation of German Verbal Idioms with a BiLSTM Architecture
Rafael Ehren | Timm Lichte | Laura Kallmeyer | Jakub Waszczuk
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

Supervised disambiguation of verbal idioms (VID) poses special demands on the quality and quantity of the annotated data used for learning and evaluation. In this paper, we present a new VID corpus for German and perform a series of VID disambiguation experiments on it. Our best classifier, based on a neural architecture, yields an error reduction across VIDs of 57% in terms of accuracy compared to a simple majority baseline.