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The Lexicon-Grammar of Predicate Nouns with ser de in Port4NooJ

Authors : Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Anabela Barreiro

Published in: Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper provides continuity for previous efforts on the integration of complementary lexicon-grammars to expand the paraphrastic capabilities of Port4NooJ, the Portuguese module of NooJ (Silberztein 2016). We describe the integration of the lexicon-grammar of 2,085 predicate nouns, which co-occur in constructions with the support verb ser de ‘be of’ in European Portuguese, such as in O Pedro é de uma coragem extraordinária ‘Peter is of an extraordinary courage’, studied, classified and formalized by Baptista (2005b). This led to a 20% increase in the number of predicate nouns. We also extended previously created paraphrasing grammars, such as the grammars that paraphrase symmetric predicates, as well as the grammars that handle the substitution of the support verb by another support verb. Furthermore, we created new grammars to paraphrase negative constructions, appropriate noun constructions, adjectival constructions, and manner sub-clauses. The paraphrastic capabilities acquired have been integrated in the eSPERTo system.

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eSPERTo, which means ‘smart’ in Portuguese, stands for “System of Paraphrasing for Editing and Revision of Texts” (“Sistema de Parafraseamento para Edição e Revisão de Texto”).

In Rassi et al. (2014, 2015), a proposal is presented for the integration of predicate noun constructions into STRING (Mamede et al. 2012), a hybrid, rule-based and statistical, natural language processing chain, specifically developed for the processing of Portuguese.

The construction with fazer is not strictly a paraphrase of the construction with ser de, as the former only characterizes the human gesture, but not the human quality expressed by the constructions with ser de.

Most of the predicates having this property express human qualities/attributes.

As in Mota et al. (2017), the procedure allows to check whether words are compliant with the Portuguese Orthographic Agreement, but since all the words are pre-Agreement we are not using that feature and, hence, it is not described in the figure.

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Title: The Lexicon-Grammar of Predicate Nouns with ser de in Port4NooJ
Authors: Cristina Mota
Jorge Baptista
Anabela Barreiro
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-10867-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-10868-7

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10868-7_12

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