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Syntax Deep Explorer

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Book cover Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2016)

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Abstract

The analysis of the co-occurrence patterns between words allows for a better understanding of the use (and meaning) of words and its most straightforward applications are lexicography and linguist description in general. Some tools already produce co-occurrence information about words taken from Portuguese corpora, but few can use lemmata or syntactic dependency information. Syntax Deep Explorer is a new tool that uses several association measures to quantify several co-occurrence types, defined on the syntactic dependencies (e.g. subject, complement, modifier) between a target word lemma and its co-locates. The resulting co-occurrence statistics is represented in lex-grams, that is, a synopsis of the syntactically-based co-occurrence patterns of a word distribution within a given corpus. These lex-grams are obtained from a large-sized Portuguese corpus processed by STRING [19] and are presented in a user-friendly way through a graphical interface. The Syntax Deep Explorer will allow the development of finer lexical resources and the improvement of STRING processing in general, as well as providing public access to co-occurrence information derived from parsed corpora.

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This work was supported by national funds through FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, ref. UID/CEC/50021/2013. Thanks to Neuza Costa (UAlg) for revising the final version of this paper.

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Correia & Nuno Mamede

  2. L2F – Spoken Language Lab, INESC-ID Lisboa, Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Correia, Jorge Baptista & Nuno Mamede

  3. Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

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  4. Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Suö, Brazil

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Correia, J., Baptista, J., Mamede, N. (2016). Syntax Deep Explorer. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_19

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