Automatic Analysis of Appreciative Morphology: The Case of Paronomasia in Colombian Spanish

Walter Koza, Viviana Román, Constanza Suy

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Abstract

Paronomasia is defined as the substitution of one lexical item for another, based on partial homophony. While this phenomenon has been the subject of several studies focused on stylistic aspects [1, 2] - and, to a lesser extent, those of grammar [3] - computational linguistics approaches are practically nonexistent. Previous barriers include difficulties in automatically assigning correct labels (both semantic and morphological) due to ambiguity in these expressions. To this end, this paper analyzes a group of Colombian Spanish nouns and their corresponding paronomastic variants from the Generative Lexicon Theory [4, 5] (GLT) with a view toward computational modelling and automatic recognition by means of NooJ [6]. The methodology consists of the following steps: (i) selection of a list of Colombian Spanish nouns included in Varela’s work [7]; (ii) creation of semantic structures (SS) according to GLT; and (iii) elaboration of productive morphological and constrained syntactic grammars [8]. The resources are tested on a set of sentences, yielding promising results to further investigate the automatic analysis of paronomasia from this perspective.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFormalizing Natural Languages
Subtitle of host publicationApplications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities - 16th International Conference, NooJ 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMariana González, Silvia Susana Reyes, Andrea Rodrigo, Max Silberztein
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages39-49
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031233166
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities, NooJ 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 14 Jun 202216 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1758 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities, NooJ 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period14/06/2216/06/22

Keywords

  • Automatic analysis
  • Colombian Spanish
  • Generative Lexicon theory
  • NooJ
  • Paronomasia

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