Community:LSPSymbols
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This page contains a reference for the symbols and abbreviations used in the descriptions Lexico-syntactic ODPs.
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| Symbols & abbreviations | Description |
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| AP<…> | Adjectival Phrase. It is defined as a phrase whose head is an adjective accompanied optionally by adverbs or other complements as prepositional phrases. AP is followed by the semantic role played by the concept it represents in the conceptual relation (for instance, property) in angle brackets. |
| CATV | Verbs of Classification. Set of verbs of classification plus the preposition that normally follows them. Some of the most representative verbs in this group are: classify in/into, categorize in/into, subcategorize in/into, group in/into, fall into. |
| CD | Cardinal Number. |
| CN | Class Name. Generic names for semantic roles usually accompanied by preposition. Two main groups have been identified: CN conveying classification (CN-CATV) (class, group, type, subtype, subclass, category, species, family, order, example) and CN conveying mereological relations (CN-PART) (part, set, member, constituent, component, element, piece, item, layer). If not otherwise specified, CN can include generic names such as period, area or phase. |
| PART | Verbs of Mereology. Set of verbs conveying the relation existing between a whole and its parts. Some of the most representative ones are: contain, form part of, consist of, comprise, be composed of, be made up of, be formed of, be part of, be constituted of. |
| NP<…> | Noun Phrase. It is defined as a phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers, and that functions as the subject or object of a verb. NP is followed by the semantic role played by the concept it represents in the conceptual relation in question in <…>, e.g., class, subclass, part, property, value, object, etc. |
| PARA | Paralinguistic symbols like colon, or more complex structures such as as follows, etc., that introduce a list. |
| PREP | Prepositions |
| QUAN | Quantifiers such as all, some, most, many, several, every, etc. |
| REPRO | Relative pronouns such as that, which, whose. |
| ( ) | Parentheses group two or more elements. |
| * | Asterisk indicates repetition. |
| [ ] | Elements in brackets are meant to be optional, which means that they can be present either at that stage of the sentence or not. By default of appearance, the semantic of the pattern remains unmodified. |
| NEG | Negative. Elements preceded by this abbreviation should not appear in the pattern. |
