Syntactic Transformations in Rule-Based Parsing of Support Verb Constructions: Examples from European Portuguese

Jorge Baptista (1, 2) , Nuno Mamede (3, 4)

1 Universidade do Algarve
2 INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
3 ULISBOA - Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon
4 INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

This paper reports ongoing work on building a rule-based grammar for (European) Portuguese, incorporating support verb constructions (SVC). The paper focuses on parsing sentences resulting from syntactic transformations of SVC, and presents a methodology to automatically generate testing examples directly from the SVC Lexicon-Grammar matrix where their linguistic properties are represented. These examples allow both to improve the linguistic description of these constructions and to test intrinsically the system parser, spotting unforeseen issues due to previous natural language processing steps.

Mots clés: Rule-based parsing; syntactic transformations; language resources; European Portuguese; Lexicon-Grammar; Support Verb

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Traitement du texte et du document; Linguistique

Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede. Syntactic Transformations in Rule-Based Parsing of Support Verb Constructions: Examples from European Portuguese. SLATE, Jul 2020, Barcelos (virtual), Portugal. pp.11:1-11:14, ⟨10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2020.11⟩. ⟨hal-03020185⟩