Requisitos para a modelagem de padrões de cunhagem e construções semi-produtivas no constructicon da FrameNet Brasil com foco no fomento ao desenvolvimento de tradutores automáticos

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the contributions that the FrameNet and the Constructicon could offer to Machine Translation (MT) systems by revisiting the literature about Construction Grammar and Coinage Patterns (KAY, 2013). The hypothesis is that by using the FrameNet database, which offers computational representations of essential cognitive structures formeaning construction (frames), and a Constructicon database, which integrates information about the grammar of a language, it is possible to support the natural language processing by the computer and, consequently, to assist Machine Translation systems. The second point of this work refers to the review of Construction Grammar, especially the treatment of coinage patterns. According to Kay’s approach (2005, 2013), it must be considered a construction only the minimal quantity of information that a speaker needs to be able to understand and to produce sentences of the language. From this perspective, it is assumed that constructions of a language are these more general and productive patterns, which license many comprehensible sentences by the speaker. For this reason we seek to reanalyze the indefinite quantity structure: i) mar de gente, ii) oceano de calúnias, iii) enxurrada de notícias, already investigated in a dissertation (TAVARES, 2014), in order to discuss the validity of Kay's approach to the computational modeling of the quantification pattern. The analyses is guided by Frame Semantics principles (FILLLMORE, 1982,1985; PETRUCK, 1996) and by FrameNet methodology, which applies a semantic and syntactic analyses to the objects of this research, because dealing with Natural Language Processing demands an account for the language regularities so it can be computationally processed. The conclusion of the analysis points to the fact that the modeling of the indefinite quantification structure as a network of coinage patterns in the FrameNet Brasil Constructicon, defined from soft constraints, can bring about a gain of generality in the analysis and the possibility that innovative structures, coined by analogy, are equally recognizable by the resulting computational model, which represents an advance over the processes traditionally employed in the hybridization of machine translation systems.