Uma gramática LFG-XLE para o processamento sintático profundo da frase do português brasileiro

Abstract

The present thesis describes the development of a Brazilian Portuguese sentence grammar, developed in the framework of a sophisticated computational formalism, named Lexical Functional Grammar, and implemented on a system that is state of the art in deep parsing environment in LFG generative model, the robust XLE. The main feature of the grammar is that it adopts the ParGram annotation system and the methodology agreed by XLE grammar developers. In the grammar fragment are modeled diverse elements of phrasal syntax. In our grammar were modeled constituents as IP and CP, elements that are head the sentences of the Portuguese. Also were modeled certain aspects of verbal subcategorization and argument structure. In terms of verbal elements, our grammar includes some cases of verbal complex made up of modal verbs and control verbs. The nominal elements treated in grammar, centrally, were the expletives and reflexive pronouns, and cases of nominal and determiners phrases with demonstrative pronouns and interrogative. The other aspects modeled in the grammar are PPs, whose complexity is given the distinction between semantic and nonstandard prepositions; the adjectival phrases, whose projection in the sentence can occur from attributive adjectival forms of ordinal or cardinal forms and as intensifiers; and adverbial phrases, whose internal structure was modeled taking into account both adverbs as intransitive and as transitive, with PP complement. Our evaluation shows that of the 40 tested sentences, our grammar assigns, for all of them, consistent and well-founded analysis, while the parser Palavras, the current state of the art in deep syntactic processing of Portuguese, assigns incorrect analysis for 9 sentences. Another evaluation shows that, of the 20 ungrammatical sentences tested both in our grammar, as in Palavras, only 2 received analysis by our grammar, while the Palavras provides analysis to 19 sentences. The work has essentially the goal of making a formal and grounded description in a broad range of phenomena in Brazilian Portuguese, but mainly aims to collaborate with a not trivial grammar of the sentence in the LFG-XLE formalism, effectively contributing to a grammatical resource turned to the natural language processing.