Towards Lexical Encoding of Multi-Word Expressions in Spanish Dialects

Diana Bogantes (1) , Eric Rodríguez (1) , Alejandro Arauco (1) , Alejandro Rodríguez (1) , Agata Savary (2)

1 UT - Université de Tours
2 BDTLN - Bases de données et traitement des langues naturelles

This paper describes a pilot study in lexical encoding of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in 4 Latin American dialects of Spanish: Costa Rican, Colombian, Mexican and Peruvian. We describe the variability of MWE usage across dialects. We adapt an existing data model to a dialect-aware encoding, so as to represent dialect-related specificities, while avoiding redundancy of the data common for all dialects. A dozen of linguistic properties of MWEs can be expressed in this model, both on the level of a whole MWE and of its individual components. We describe the resulting lexical resource containing several dozens of MWEs in four dialects and we propose a method for constructing a web corpus as a support for crowdsourcing examples of MWE occurrences. The resource is available under an open license and paves the way towards a large-scale dialect-aware language resource construction, which should prove useful in both traditional and novel NLP applications.

Mots clés: multi-word expressions; lexical encoding; Spanish dialects

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Linguistique

Diana Bogantes, Eric Rodríguez, Alejandro Arauco, Alejandro Rodríguez, Agata Savary. Towards Lexical Encoding of Multi-Word Expressions in Spanish Dialects. Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. ⟨hal-01505049⟩