An Empirical Study with Sketch Engine on the Syntactic-Pragmatic Interface for the Identification of Thematic Structure in Spanish
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Annotation, POS-tagging, Language, Modeling, Pattern RecognitionAbstract
In this article we address, through a case study, the formalisation of the thematic progression theory in order to render explicit the conceptual development patterns within texts. The text analysis tool Sketch Engine, whose features and short-comings will be addressed and discussed, is applied to analyse a corpus of morphosyntactically annotated Spanish journalistic texts with the aim of exploring which patterns enable the inference of the thematic structure of the sentences. For this purpose, we carried out a study of the morpho-syntactic and lexical features which characterise themes and rhemes of every sentence and, subsequently, we empirically validated them in the corpus. Finally, we discuss the applicability of our methodology and identify future lines of research.
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