NAME

Lingua::PT::Actants - compute verb actants for Portuguese

VERSION

version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

    # using as a library
    use Lingua::PT::Actants;
    my $a = Lingua::PT::Actants->new( conll => $input );
    my @cores = $a->acts_cores;
    my @actants = $a->actatans;

    # example from the command line
    $ cat examples/input.txt 
    1   A       _   DET     DET     _   2   det     _   _
    2   Maria   _   PROPN   PROPN   _   3   nsubj   _   _
    3   tem     _   VERB    VERB    _   0   ROOT    _   _
    4   razão   _   NOUN    NOUN    _   3   dobj    _   _
    5   .       _   PUNCT   PUNCT   _   3   punct   _   _
    $ cat examples/input.txt | actants
    Sentence: A Maria tem razão .
    # Actants syntagma cores
     Verb: tem
      0.526990 | Maria
      0.461116 | razão
      0.008234 | .
      0.003660 | A
    # Actants syntagmas
     Verb: tem
      A1: A Maria
      A2: razão

DESCRIPTION

This module implements an algorithm that computes a sorted rank of tokens where the score measures the propensity of the token being an actant for the verb to which is related.

FUNCTIONS

new

Create a new object, pass as argument the input text in CONLL format.

acts_cores

Compute the core (a token) of the actants syntagmas as rank sorted by score.

pp_acts_cores

Pretty print actants cores, mainly to be used by the command line interface.

actants

Compute actants for a sentence, returns a list of actants found.

pp_acts_syntagmas

Pretty print actants syntagmas, mainly to be used by the command line interface.

AUTHOR

Nuno Carvalho <smash@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Nuno Carvalho.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.