Semantic Roles for Portuguese Verbs
Rui Talhadas, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista, U. Lisboa · 2013
Semantic roles are a relevant layer of linguistic information, useful for many Natural Language applications. In the Lexicon-Grammar framework, it has not received much explicit attention, though many authors use them in a more or less formal perspective. This paper presents the tentative of defining in a precise way and systematically applying the concept of semantic role to the full extent of full verb constructions in European Portuguese. The purpose of this is double: firstly, to verify the consistency and applicability of this concept in a large-sized lexicon-grammar, and, secondly, to prepare the way for an effective SR labelling module, to be integrated in a fully-fledged NLP system, STRING 1 .