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Search for the Relation of Form and Function Using the ForFun Database

2018; De Gruyter Open; Volume: 110; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2478/pralin-2018-0003

1804-0462

Marie Mikulová, Eduard Bejček, Eva Hajičová, Jarmila Panevová,

Linguistic research and analysis

Abstract The aim of the contribution is to introduce a database of linguistic forms and their functions built with the use of the multi-layer annotated corpora of Czech, the Prague Dependency Treebanks. The purpose of the Prague Database of Forms and Functions (ForFun) is to help the linguists to study the form-function relation, which we assume to be one of the principal tasks of both theoretical linguistics and natural language processing. We demonstrate possibilities of the exploitation of the ForFun database. This article is largely based on a paper presented at the 16th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories in Prague (Bejček et al., 2017).