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On the Analysis of Locative Phrases with Graphs and Lexicon-Grammar: The Classifier/Proper Noun Pairing

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This paper analyses French locative prepositional phrases containing a location proper name Npr (e.g. Méditerranée) and its associated classifier Nc (e.g. mer). The (Nc, Npr) pairs are formally described with the aid of elementary sentences. We study their syntactic properties within adverbial support verb constructions and encode them in a Lexicon-Grammar Matrix. From this matrix, we build grammars in the form of graphs and evaluate their application to a journalistic corpus.

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  1. University of Marne-la-Vallée, 5 bld Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne, 77 454, Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France

    Matthieu Constant

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  1. Universidade de Lisboa e CAUTL (IST), Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Elisabete Ranchhod

  2. L2F/INESC ID Lisboa, Technical University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede

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Constant, M. (2002). On the Analysis of Locative Phrases with Graphs and Lexicon-Grammar: The Classifier/Proper Noun Pairing. In: Ranchhod, E., Mamede, N.J. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. PorTAL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2389. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45433-0_6

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