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PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Comparing Verb Synonym Resources for Portuguese
Abstract. In this paper we compare verb synonym information contained in four public-available lexical-semantic resources for Portuguese: TeP, PAPEL, Wiktionary and OpenThesaurusPT...
Jorge Teixeira, Luís Sarmento, Eugén...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
A Machine Learning Approach to Portuguese Clause Identification
Abstract. In this work, we apply and evaluate a machine-learningbased system to Portuguese clause identification. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first machine-learning-b...
Eraldo R. Fernandes, Cícero Nogueira dos Sa...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Out-of-the-Box Robust Parsing of Portuguese
Abstract In this paper we assess to what extent the available Portuguese treebanks and available probabilistic parsers are suitable for outof-the-box robust parsing of Portuguese. ...
João Silva, António Branco, Sé...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
An Open-Source Speech Recognizer for Brazilian Portuguese with a Windows Programming Interface
Abstract. This work is part of the effort to develop a speech recognition system for Brazilian Portuguese. The resources for the training and test stages of this system, such as c...
Patrick Silva, Pedro Batista, Nelson Neto, Aldebar...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Voice Quality of European Portuguese Emotional Speech
An acoustic analysis was conducted to investigate parameters related to Voice Quality in European Portuguese (EP) speech conveying several emotions. Our main objectives were: to o...
Ana Nunes, Rosa Lídia Coimbra, Antón...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Comparing Sentence-Level Features for Authorship Analysis in Portuguese
In this paper we compare the robustness of several types of stylistic markers to help discriminate authorship at sentence level. We train a SVM-based classifier using each set of ...
Rui Sousa-Silva, Luís Sarmento, Tim Grant, ...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences
We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framewo...
Lucia Specia