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We present a hierarchy of semantic labels for the Spanish language. Each semantic label corresponds to the genus proximum (the next kind) of the lexical units that it describes. After having chosen ALGO ‘something’ as the head of our hierarchy, we distinguish between HECHO ‘fact’ and ENTIDAD ‘entity’, each of which are further partitioned into around twenty subclasses. Facts correspond to predicates while entities can correspond either to semantic names (objects) or to quasi-predicates. For disambiguation of predicates and quasi-predicates, we use the notion of an actantial formula (a linguistic expression that specifies the actants of a predicative form). The implementation of this hierarchy in the Spanish electronic dictionary of NooJ would allow us to foresee diverse applications.
This research has been funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) in the frame of the project FFI-2013-44185-P Jerarquía de etiquetas semánticas (español y francés) para los géneros próximos de la definición lexicográfica.
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Blanco, X. (2016). A Hierarchy of Semantic Labels for Spanish Dictionaries. In: Okrut, T., Hetsevich, Y., Silberztein, M., Stanislavenka, H. (eds) Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ. NooJ 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 607. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42471-2_6
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