As abordagens teóricas e os formalismos para o tratamento computacional do significado lexical

Theoretical approaches and formalisms for the computational treatment of lexical meaning

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As abordagens teóricas e os formalismos para o tratamento computacional do significado lexical

Theoretical approaches and formalisms for the computational treatment of lexical meaning

Ariani Di Felippo

UNESP, E-mail: [e-mail]

RESUMO

No âmbito do Processamento Automático de Línguas Naturais (PLN), o desenvolvimento de recursos léxico-semânticos é premente. Ao conceber os sistemas de PLN como um exercício de "engenharia da linguagem humana", acredita-se que o desenvolvimento de tais recursos pode ser beneficiado pelos modelos de "representação do conhecimento", desenvolvidos pela Engenharia do Conhecimento. Esses modelos, em particular, fornecem simultaneamente o arcabouço teórico-metodológico e a metalinguagem formal para o tratamento computacional do significado das unidades lexicais. Neste artigo, após a apresentação da concepção linguístico-computacional de léxico, elucidam-se os principais paradigmas de representação do conhecimento, enfatizando a abordagem do significado e a metalinguagem formal vinculadas a cada um deles.

Palavras-chave: semântica lexical, recurso linguístico-computacional, representação do conhecimento, processamento automático de línguas naturais.

ABSTRACT

The development of lexical-semantic resources for natural language processing is urgent. Conceiving the computational systems which process natural languages as an exercise of "human language engineering", the development of such resources can benefit from the "knowledge representation models" provided by Knowledge Engineering. These models provide both the theoretical-methodological premises and the formal metalanguage for the computational treatment of word meaning. In this paper, we first present the linguistic-computational conception of "lexicon". Then, we describe the main knowledge representation paradigms emphasizing the theoretical approach to word meaning and the formalism related to each of them.

Keywords: Lexical Semantics, Computational-Linguistic resource, knowledge representation, natural language processing.

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Datas de Publicação

• Publicação nesta coleção
  11 Mar 2013
• Data do Fascículo
  2010

Histórico

• Recebido
  22 Jul 2008
• Aceito
  17 Fev 2009