Francisco Javier Carreras Riudavets

Integration of an XML electronic dictionary with linguistic tools for natural language processing

This study proposes the codification of lexical information in electronic dictionaries, in accordance with a generic and extendable XML scheme model, and its conjunction with linguistic tools for the processing of natural language. Our approach is different from other similar studies in that we propose XML coding of those items from a dictionary of meanings that are less related to the lexical units. Linguistic information, such as morphology, syllables, phonology, etc., will be included by means of specific linguistic tools. The use of XML as a container for the information allows the use of other XML tools for carrying out searches or for enabling presentation of the information in different resources. This model is particularly important as it combines two parallel paradigms-extendable labelling of documents and computational linguistics-and it is also applicable to other languages. We have included a comparison with the labelling proposal of printed dictionaries carried out by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). The proposed design has been validated with a dictionary of more than 145000 accepted meanings.

Análisis lingüístico y formalización computacional del texto argumentativo (OpinionText TIP)

En algunas ocasiones, el hablante que interviene activamente y de forma escrita en el debate politico y social que tiene lugar en la Red provoca un acto comunicativo fallido, al dar prioridad a su deseo de expresarse sin prestar atencion a los parametros linguisticos y discursivos que dotan de eficacia a estos intercambios. El trabajo que presentamos pretende contribuir a la mejora de las estrategias de comunicacion de los actores sociales. Para ello, desarrollaremos un analisis teorico y aplicado de las estrategias linguisticas y comunicativas definitorias de la argumentacion, que haga posible el diseno y desarrollo de una herramienta informatica, OpinionText TIP, con la que el usuario pueda llevar a cabo un analisis de su propia produccion argumentativa basandose en parametros objetivables y mensurables, de modo que aumenten las posibilidades de que su texto logre la adhesion de sus lectores.