Extracting syntactic-semantic information from cobuild definitions and representing it in TFS

In this part of the Deliverable, we present (i) the work in Pisa on the design and development of a specialised parser to extract syntactic-semantic information from the definitions contained in the Cobuild Student's Dictionary and (ii) a preliminary proposal for the mapping of such information onto a TFS representation system. The work discussed here concentrates on the analysis and extraction of information from the left hand side (LHS) of the definition and the parser must be considered as a first prototype version, to be further refined and extended as our work progresses. Similarly, once we have been able to assess the first results of the parser, it will be possible to define the most appropriate type system to represent the information extracted from this side of the definition.