Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-based System (ARTEMIS). A further step towards the computational representation of RRG

Abstract

Within the framework of FUNK Lab -a virtual laboratory for natural language processing inspired on a functionally-oriented linguistic theory like Role and Reference Grammar-, a number of computational resources have been built dealing with different aspects of language and with an application in different scientific domains, i.e. terminology, lexicography, sentiment analysis, document classification, text analysis, data mining etc. One of these resources is ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-Based System), which departs from the pioneering work of Periñán-Pascual (2013) and Periñán-Pascual & Arcas (2014). This computational tool is a proof of concept prototype which allows the automatic generation of a conceptual logical structure (CLS) (cf. Mairal-Usón, Periñán-Pascual and Pérez 2012; Van Valin and Mairal-Usón 2014), that is, a fully specified semantic representation of an input text on the basis of a reduced sample of sentences. The primary aim of this paper is to develop the syntactic rules that form part of the computational grammar for the representation of simple clauses in English. More specifically, this work focuses on the format of those syntactic rules that account for the upper levels of the RRG Layered Structure of the Clause (LSC), that is, the core (and the level-1 construction associated with it), the clause and the sentence (Van Valin 2005). In essence, this analysis, together with that in Cortés-Rodríguez and Mairal-Usón (2016), offers an almost complete description of the computational grammar behind the LSC for simple clauses.

Parsing adverbial complex sentences in ASD-STE100 within ARTEMIS

“…Secondly, a summary of the most critical aspects of complex sentences within Role and Reference Grammar (RRG-Van Valin &LaPolla 1997 andVan Valin 2005) is considered, since ARTEMIS is inspired on this functionally-oriented linguistic theory. In section 3, we can see the influence of the four-level constructional schemata of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM-Mairal-Usón & Ruiz de Mendoza 2009) on Fun-GramKB (Functional Grammar Knowledge Base) and ARTEMIS, as computational resources of FUNK Lab , a virtual laboratory for natural language processing where several computational resources (the NLP-LAB, a LABoratory of Natural Language Processing and text analytics; the FunGramKB NAVIGATOR; DEXTER, initials for Discovering and EXtracting TERminology; DAMIEN, initials for DAta MIning ENcountered; and ARTEMIS) with applications in different scientific fields have been built (Mairal-Usón & Cortés-Rodríguez 2017). Section 4 is devoted to the analysis à la ARTEMIS of the adverbial complex sentences identified in ASD-STE100.…”