Description and Exploitation of BDS: a Syntactic Database about Verb Government in Spanish

Abstract

In this document, a description is given of a syntactic database about verb government in Spanish. We first describe the framework that inspired the development of the database (Section 1.1), and then present the analysed corpus (1.2) and the database itself (1.3). Section 2 contains a description of the process of elaboration of the database, as well as a description of its structure and of the annotation system used in it. Section 3 presents some results of the work done for the exploitation of the data contained in BDS, as well as the current stage of the main exploitation that we intended to do of it when we decided to start the work: the elaboration of a Spanish Dictionary of Verb Structure and Government. Section 4, finally, indicates the new directions that the project has recently taken or is likely to take in the near future.