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This paper depicts the fundamentals of a computational grammar able to provide adequate representations for Portuguese simple sentences with several kinds of ambiguities. Besides the description of the architecture of the system proposed and the way it works, the paper focuses on the discussion of the nature of the specifications to encode in order to get a high level of precision. From a linguistic point of view, an endocentric phrase structure approach is adopted. The information is encoded in a DCG-like formalism, implemented in PROLOG.
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Marrafa, P. (2005). Modelling Grammatical and Lexical Knowledge: A Declarative Approach. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_3
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