Análisis Sintáctico para el Español Basado en el Formalismo de la Teoría Significado-Texto

The application of the Meaning ⇔ Text Theory to Spanish parsing is presented. This formalism is based on dependency grammars. The combinatorial dictionary of this method is employed for the syntactic analysis; it consists of patterns for words, mainly verbs, where all its valences and the way they are realized are described. In this method, no fixed word order in the sentence is considered so it is highly adequate for Spanish parsing. The patterns of the combinatorial dictionary help not only to reduce the number of possible variants obtained from the parser but they include information of the syntactic level related to the semantic of the word which is required in deep levels of language analysis. We include statistical information of realizations for each valence and statistics of valence combinations for each verb in order to increase the efficiency of ambiguity resolution in syntactic analysis.