Abstract
The PARSEME Shared Task on automatic identification of verbal multiword expressions aims at identifying such expressions in running texts. Typology of verbal multiword expressions, very detailed annotation guidelines and gold-standard data for as many languages as possible will be provided.
Since the Prague Dependency Treebank includes Czech multiword expression annotation, it was natural to make an attempt to automatically convert the data into the Shared Task format. However, since the Czech treebank predates the Shared Task annotation guidelines, a prior examination was necessary to determine to which extent the conversion can be fully automatic and how much manual work remains.
In this paper, we show that information contained in the Prague Dependency Treebank is sufficient to extract all of the Shared Task categories of verbal multiword expressions relevant for Czech, even if these categories are originally annotated differently; nevertheless, some manual checking and annotation would still be ne