Morphoanalysis of Spanish texts: Two applications for web pages

Abstract

The applications described here follow up the works performed in the recent last years by the Data Structures and Computational Linguistics Group at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University. These works have been developed about computational Linguistics and, as one of their results, some tools for morphologic identification and generation have been released. This work presents the use of those tools as parts of new applications designed to benefit from the great linguistic information flow from Internet. Two kinds of applications are identified, both according to the interactive grade of the linguistics studies to be done, and two prototypes, named DAWeb and NAWeb, are developed with special attention to their architecture in order to maximize the efficiency of both. Analysis modes include: neologism detection, word use (qualitative and quantitative measurements) and some syntax aspects like lexical collocations or prepositional regimes. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.