MPRO-Spanish: development and experiments with a linguistic parser for Spanish texts

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Ramírez Safar, Yamile;
Haller, Johann;
Sabaté Carrové, Mariona;
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(2006)
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MPRO-Spanish: development and experiments with a linguistic parser for Spanish texts.
Revista española de lingüística aplicada, 2006, vol. 19, p. 179-199.
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/41636.
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This paper describes the main features and present results of MPRO-Spanish, a parser for morphological and syntactic analysis of unrestricted Spanish text developed at the IAI1. This parser makes direct use of X-phrase structure rules to handle
a variety of patterns from derivational morphology and syntactic structure. Both
analyses, morphological and syntactic, are realised by two subsequent modules. One
module analyses and disambiguates the source words at morphological level while the
other consists of a series of programs and a deterministic, procedural and explicit
grammar. The article explains the main features of MPRO and resumes some of the
experiments on some of its applications, some of which still being implemented like the monolingual and bilingual term extraction while others need further work like indexing. The results and applications obtained so far with simple and relatively
complex sentences give us grounds to believe in its reliability.