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Pavia Verbs Database:
State of the art, challenges, and perspectives
University of Pavia
17-18 May 2023
Workshop Description
Workshop Description
PaVeDa–Pavia Verbs Database is an open-source relational database for investigating verb argument structure across languages (Zanchi et al. 2022), which intends to expand and enhance the ValPaL database (Hartmann et al. 2013; Haspelmath/Hartmann 2015) with more languages and further features. The PaVeDa database features four major innovations as compared to the ValPaL database: (i) it includes data from ancient languages enabling diachronic research; (ii) it expands the language sample to language families that are not represented in the ValPaL; (iii) it is linked to external corpora that are used as sources of usage-based examples of stored patterns; (iv) it introduces a new cross-linguistic layer of annotation for valency patterns which allows for contrastive data visualization.
PaVeDa–Pavia Verbs Database is an open-source relational database for investigating verb argument structure across languages (Zanchi et al. 2022), which intends to expand and enhance the ValPaL database (Hartmann et al. 2013; Haspelmath/Hartmann 2015) with more languages and further features. The PaVeDa database features four major innovations as compared to the ValPaL database: (i) it includes data from ancient languages enabling diachronic research; (ii) it expands the language sample to language families that are not represented in the ValPaL; (iii) it is linked to external corpora that are used as sources of usage-based examples of stored patterns; (iv) it introduces a new cross-linguistic layer of annotation for valency patterns which allows for contrastive data visualization.
References
Hartmann, Iren, Martin Haspelmath M., and Bradley Taylor (eds.) 2013. Valency Patterns Leipzig. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://valpal.info/)
Haspelmath Martin, Hartmann I. 2015. Comparing verbal valency across languages. In Andrej Malchukov A. and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency Classes in the World’s Languages. 41-71. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Zanchi, Chiara, Claudia Roberta Combei, and Silvia Luraghi. 2022. PaVeDa - Pavia Verbs Database: Challenges and Perspectives. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pages 99–102, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics. (available at https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigtyp-1.14/).
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