Constructicografia multilíngue em ação: diretrizes linguístico-computacionais para o alinhamento de constructicons

Abstract

This dissertation proposes linguistic-computational guidelines to the alignment of constructicons, having as the starting point the Brazilian Portuguese (BP) Constructicon, developed within FrameNet Brasil (FN-Br) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. A constructicon is a syntactic resource, a repository of constructions, as defined by Fillmore et al. (2012). After the initial phase of the BP Constructicon implementation, the current moment of the resource development includes efforts in order to improve the relations among constructions, frames and their elements, increasing the generality and intern coherence of the analysis (ALMEIDA, 2016; LAGE, 2018). Besides that, considering the existence of constructicons for other languages currently under development – English, Swedish, German, Russian and Japanese –,one of the goals of the Brazilian project is to connect those resources in a single multilingual database. However, even with all the projects having the same theoretical basis and the same reference – namely the Construction Grammar and the English Constructicon – they have used different methodologies and approaches for the implementation of their resources. Because of those particularities, when thinking of a proposal of an alignment among constructicons, it’s important to seek a representation that allows them to be aligned despite their specificities and analytical biases. In this matter, this dissertation discusses which methodological procedures could be applied to the efforts of alignment employing a work methodology that is divided into three stages: 1) contrastive analysis of BP, Swedish and English constructions; 2) survey of possibilities of representation of the alignment of these resources; and 3) implementation of the alignment proposal. As a result of the three steps, constructions comparison criteria were elaborated that they can be used by future contrast researches between constructions of different languages, and UDs and framenets were used as intermediate representations for the alignment of constructions and constructicons, allowing other language projects perform constructional alignments towards a multilingual constructicon. Therefore, this work aims contributes to the alignment of constructicons of different languages in the computational and linguistic scope.