From BDS to the AVALON Lexicon and Grammar: Verb Scheme Clusters Generation and their Exploitation within the Grammar

Abstract

The text explains how BDS, a syntactic database about verb government developed at USC, has contributed to the elaboration of an AGFL formal grammar, which we have called AVALON, for the generation of a parser that can be used to analyse spanish texts. BDS has been the source for verb schemes in the lexicon by means of a process of reduction of the configurations that it analyses into verb schemes for the lexicon. It has been also the source for the data about the order of arguments in clauses. These data have determined the number and the order of alternatives for the analysis of clauses into sequences of argument constituents.