Eckhard Bick - VISL

50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9+
Number of readings
- 131 -
% wordforms
% with local disambiguation
In the case of "derivational" ambiguity with equal depth, another tool for local
disambiguation - not included in the above table - has been introduced: The tagger fuses
readings of same derivational depth if their tag strings are identical, and the only
difference is a word class difference in the root . Thus, in (2), the same '-ista' derivation
is arrived at, departing from 4 different roots, with parlamentar lexicon-registered as
both N and ADJ (since this difference is not visible in the base form tag, I have here
retained the system internal lexeme identity numbers §...§).
(2)
parlamentaristas
"parlamentar" N M/F P §37367§
"parlamentar" N M/F P §37368§ ###
"parlamentário" N M/F P §37370§ ###
"parlamentarismo" N M/F P §37371§ ###
Finally, from a non-semantic perspective, the derivational path, telling which affixes
have been used, is not important, as long as the resulting morpho-syntactic information
is identical. Therefore readings with different paths (in fig. 3 '-ção' vs. '-ização'), but
identical non-derivational tags (in fig. 3, N F S), may be fused.