Functional Disambiguation Based on Syntactic Structures
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Correspondence: Francisco Javier Carreras Riudavets, Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Edificio de Informática y Matemáticas, Campus Universitario de Tafira, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain. E-mail: fcarreras{at}dis.ulpgc.es
This article presents a disambiguation method which diminishes the functional combinations of the words of a sentence taking into account the context in which they appear. This process is built in two phases: the first phase is based on the local syntactic structures of the Spanish language and reaches an average yield of 87%. The second one is supported by syntactic tree representation and pushes the results up to an approximate high end of 96%. This process constitutes the starting point towards an automated syntactic analysis.