The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items (CoDII)

CoDII was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2002-2008) and the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg (2007-2009).

Purpose and Design of CoDII

The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items (CoDII) is a linguistic resource on lexical items which have highly idiosyncratic occurrence patterns.

Steps in the development of CoDII:

• 2002 – 2004: CoDII was initiated within the project A5 Distributional Idiosyncrasies of the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) 441 at the University of Tübingen.
• 2004 – 2008: In the second phase of the project A5, the collections on polarity items were added to CoDII (CoDII-NPI.de, CoDII-PPI.de, CoDII-NPI.ro)-
  Simultaneously the collection of English bound words (CoDII-BW.en) was compiled at the University of Göttingen.
• since 2012: Migration of CoDII to Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Collaborators

The following people have contributed to the design and the compilation of CoDII.

• Johannes Fiegenbaum (February 2007 – December 2008)
• Friederike Fischer (October 2004 – October 2005)
• Gianina Iordachioaia, University of Graz (October 2005 – January 2006)
• Monique de Jong (October 2003 – December 2004)
• Frank Richter, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M. (since 2002)
• Manfred Sailer, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. (January 2002 – September 2004)
• Jan-Philipp Soehn, formerly University of Tübingen (January 2002 – July 2003 and August 2005 – October 2008)
• Beata Trawiński, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (August 2003 – December 2008)
• Bela Usabaev (May 2006 – December 2006)

Subcollections of CoDII

• CoDII-BW.de (Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: German Bound Words / Sammlung unikaler Wörter des Deutschen, SuWD)

  CoDII-BW.de contains information on 446 German bound words.

• CoDII-BW.en (Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: English Bound Words)

  CoDII-BW.en contains information on 77 English bound words.

• CoDII-NPI.de (Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: Negative Polarity Items in German)

  CoDII-NPI.de contains information on 165 German Negative Polarity Items.

• CoDII-NPI.ro (Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: Negative Polarity Items in Romanian)

  CoDII-NPI.ro contains information on 58 Romanian Negative Polarity Items.

• CoDII-PPI.de (Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: Positive Polarity Items in German)

  CoDII-PPI.de contains information on 88 German Positive Polarity Items.

Publications

• Jan-Philipp Soehn, Mingya Liu, Beata Trawiński and Gianina Iordachioaia (2010). Nicht sonderlich oder doch sattsam bekannt? Positive und Negative Polaritätselemente als lexikalische Einheiten mit Distributionsidiosynkrasien. In Jarmo Korhonen, Wolfgang Mieder, Elisabeth Piirainen and Rosa Piñel (Eds.), EUROPHRAS 2008 Beiträge zur internationalen Phraseologiekonferenz vom 13.-16.8.2008 in Helsinki, pp. 273-281, Helsinki, Finland.

• Beata Trawinski, Manfred Sailer, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Lothar Lemnitzer and Frank Richter (2008). Cranberry Expressions in English and in German. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008), pp. 35-38. European Language Resources Association (ELRA): Marrakech, Morocco.

• Beata Trawiński and Jan-Philipp Soehn (2008). A Multilingual Database of Polarity Items. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). European Language Resources Association (ELRA): Marrakech, Morocco.

• Beata Trawiński, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter (2008). A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items. In Elisenda Bernal and Janet DeCesaris (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIII Euralex International Congress, Series: Activitats, Volume 20, pp. 1445-1451. Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, Spain.

• Manfred Sailer and Beata Trawinski (2006). Die Sammlung unikaler Wörter des Deutschen. Aufbauprinzipien und erste Auswertungsergebnisse [The Collection of German Bound Words. Design Principles and First Evaluation]. In Annelies Häcki Buhofer and Harald Burger (Eds.), Phraseology in Motion I. Methoden und Kritik. Akten der Internationalen Tagung zur Phraseologie (Basel, 2004), Series: Phraseologie und Parämiologie, Volume 19, pp. 439-450. Hohengehren: Schneider Verlag.

• Manfred Sailer and Beata Trawinski (2006). The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: A Multilingual Resource for Linguistic Research. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, pp. 471-474. Genoa, Italy.

Presentations

• 18. - 21. September 2012
  Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer, Beata Trawiński: Ein Forschungsportal an der Grammatik-Lexikon-Schnittstelle. Auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Erlangen.

• August 13 - 16, 2008
  Jan-Philipp Soehn, Mingya Liu, Beata Trawinski and Gianina Iordachioaia: Positive und Negative Polaritätselemente als lexikalische Einheiten mit Distributionsidiosynkrasien. Talk given at Europhras 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

• Juli 15 - 19, 2008
  Beata Trawinski, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer and Frank Richter: A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items. Poster presented at the XIII Euralex Internacional Congress, Barcelona, Spain.

• May 1, 2008
  Beata Trawinski, Manfred Sailer, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Lothar Lemnitzer and Frank Richter: Cranberry Expressions in English and in German. Talk given at the LREC Workshop Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008), Marrakech, Morocco.

• May 28-30, 2008
  Beata Trawinski and Jan-Philipp Soehn: A Multilingual Database of Polarity Items. Poster presented at the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco.

• December 15, 2007
  Mingya Liu, Frank Richter, Jan- Philipp Soehn and Beata Trawinski: Distributionsidiosynkrasien in der Logischen Form. Project report presented at the SFB-Tag, Tübingen, German.

• April 11-13, 2007
  Beata Trawinski, Jan-Philipp Soehn and Frank Richter: Modeling Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items in XML. Poster presented at GLDV Conference 2007 (Biannual Conference of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology), Tübingen, Germany.

• March 08-10, 2007
  Frank Richter, Jan-Philipp Soehn and Beata Trawinski: Spotting, Collecting and Documenting NPIs. Talk given at the Workshop on Negation and Polarity, Tübingen, Germany.

• October 5-7, 2006
  Manfred Sailer: Modeling the Lexis-Grammar Interface in a Competence-Based Framework: The Case of Bound Words. Presentation at Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface (ELeGI 2006), Hannover, Germany.

• May 22-28, 2006
  Manfred Sailer and Beata Trawinski: The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items: A Multilingual Resource for Linguistic Research. Talk given at the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy.

• December 20, 2004
  Beata Trawinski: The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items. Invited talk given at the Institute of Computer Science at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.

• August 26-29, 2004
  Manfred Sailer and Beata Trawinski: Die Sammlung unikaler Wörter des Deutschen. Aufbauprinzipien und erste Auswertungsergebnisse [The Collection of German Bound Words. Design Principles and First Evaluation]. Talk given at EUROPHRAS 2004: Europäische Gesellschaft für Phraseologie at the University of Basel, Switzerland.