Grammatical Modeling of a Nominal Ellipsis Grammar for Spanish

Hazel Barahona, Walter Koza

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Abstract

The objective of this work is to formalize nominal ellipsis in Spanish – a grammatical mechanism in which one element is silenced with its syntactic structure, under certain syntactic restrictions – through the creation of an algorithm that automatically recognizes and replaces elided elements in natural language texts. Based on the proposal by Saab [1, 2], this paper proposes a series of formalisms represented in NooJ [3, 4] to grammatically model this phenomenon. The methodology was tested on journalistic texts extracted from the Internet. The results obtained (100% precision; 82% coverage; 90.10% F-measure) show that the developed algorithm is useful for the recognition of ellipses.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFormalising Natural Languages
Subtitle of host publicationApplications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities - 14th International Conference, NooJ 2020, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsBožo Bekavac, Kristina Kocijan, Max Silberztein, Krešimir Šojat
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages85-95
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030706289
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event14th International Conference, NooJ 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 5 Jun 20207 Jun 2020

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1389
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference14th International Conference, NooJ 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/06/207/06/20

Keywords

  • Automatic identification
  • Generative grammar
  • Nominal ellipsis
  • NooJ
  • Spanish Language

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