A semântica de frames na constituição de dicionários temáticos multilíngues para usuários não-especialistas: interface, interação e avaliação

Abstract

This dissertation discusses how linguistic theories influence the development of multilingual lexicographic resources and shape the user’s experience with these resources. For that, our object of study and analysis was the computational application mknob, which was developed and is being improved by the FrameNet Brazil team. The application, a multilingual pocket tour guide, has three main functions, being (i) a recommendation system based on geolocation and filters of interest; (ii) the Dictiopedia, which is characterized by being a dictionary that deals with the domains of Tourism and the Olympic Games, and (iii) a translator based on frames and qualia roles. In order to reach the proposed objective, we analyzed the Dictiopedia function, which is an electronic dictionary that covers the specific domains of Tourism and OlympicSports in three languages: Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish. Based on the theoretical contributions of the Lexicography (ATKINS, 2008; L'HOMME, 2010, 2014), Frame Semantics (FILLMORE, 1982, 1985), Generative Lexicon Theory (PUSTEJOVSKY, 1995) and Frame-based Terminology (FABER et al., 2005, 2006, 2010), we analyzed how these theories shape the lexical resource Diciopedia;as well as how this process affects user’s experience with the resource through questionnaires and the use of tools that monitored each user's click when using the Dictiopedia. This dissertation has other adjacent objectives that corroborate the densification of the FrameNet Brasil database, the improvement of the application (mknob) and the systematization of a process of development of other tools for specific domain. The obtained results demonstrated the validation of the Dictiopedia mode functioned in a positive way. The results also indicated necessary adjustments to the needs of the consultants; helped us to improve the computational modeling already carried out, as well as the implementation of new data that were necessary for the proposition of a standard for building electronic dictionaries based on frames in the projection of new lexicographic projects that attend other specialized domains.