Some Aspects Concerning the Automatic Treatment of Adjectives and Adverbs in Spanish: A Pedagogical Application of the NooJ Platform

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present some elements of analysis for the automatic treatment of adjectives and adverbs in Spanish with NooJ. The dictionaries of adjectives and adverbs of the Spanish Module Argentina are the result of combining the dictionaries designed by the research team Infosur led by Dr. Zulema Solana (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), with the Spanish Module Spain-UAB (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) supervised by Dr. Xavier Blanco. Following [1], we take as a reference the nucleus verb phrase, and assume there are nucleus adjective and adverb phrases as well. A syntactic unit is presented to integrate morphology and syntax in a preliminary way, and to analyse nucleus adjective phrases (SADJN), and nucleus adverb phrases (SADVN). Finally, an exercise thought of as a pedagogical application of NooJ for students to apply the grammar to a given text is proposed.