Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

1. Front Matter

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2. Speech Analysis

   1. Event Detection by HMM, SVM and ANN: A Comparative Study

      • Carla Lopes, Fernando Perdigão

      Pages 1-10

   2. Frication and Voicing Classification

      • Luis M. T. Jesus, Philip J. B. Jackson

      Pages 11-20

   3. A Spoken Dialog System Speech Interface Based on a Microphone Array

      • Gustavo Esteves Coelho, António Joaquim Serralheiro, João Paulo Neto

      Pages 21-30

3. Ontologies, Semantics and Anaphora Resolution

   1. PAPEL: A Dictionary-Based Lexical Ontology for Portuguese

      • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Diana Santos, Paulo Gomes, Nuno Seco

      Pages 31-40

   2. Comparing Window and Syntax Based Strategies for Semantic Extraction

      • Pablo Gamallo Otero

      Pages 41-50

   3. The Mitkov Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Portuguese

      • Amanda Rocha Chaves, Lucia Helena Machado Rino

      Pages 51-60

   4. Semantic Similarity, Ontologies and the Portuguese Language: A Close Look at the subject

      • Juliano Baldez de Freitas, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, Josiane Fontoura dos Anjos Brandolt

      Pages 61-70

4. Speech Synthesis

   1. Boundary Refining Aiming at Speech Synthesis Applications

      • Monique V. Nicodem, Sandra G. Kafka, Rui Seara Jr., Rui Seara

      Pages 71-80

   2. Evolutionary-Based Design of a Brazilian Portuguese Recording Script for a Concatenative Synthesis System

      • Monique Vitório Nicodem, Izabel Christine Seara, Daiana dos Anjos, Rui Seara Jr., Rui Seara

      Pages 81-90

   3. DIXI – A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese

      • Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Carlos Mendes, Luís Figueira, Renato Cassaca, Céu Viana et al.

      Pages 91-100

   4. European Portuguese Articulatory Based Text-to-Speech: First Results

      • António Teixeira, Catarina Oliveira, Plínio Barbosa

      Pages 101-111

5. Machine Learning Applied to Natural Language Processing

   1. Statistical Machine Translation of Broadcast News from Spanish to Portuguese

      • Raquel Sánchez Martínez, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Diamantino António Caseiro

      Pages 112-121

   2. Combining Multiple Features for Automatic Text Summarization through Machine Learning

      • Daniel Saraiva Leite, Lucia Helena Machado Rino

      Pages 122-132

   3. Some Experiments on Clustering Similar Sentences of Texts in Portuguese

      • Eloize Rossi Marques Seno, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

      Pages 133-142

   4. Portuguese Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning

      • Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Ruy L. Milidiú, Raúl P. Rentería

      Pages 143-152

   5. Learning Coreference Resolution for Portuguese Texts

      • José Guilherme C. de Souza, Patricia Nunes Gonçalves, Renata Vieira

      Pages 153-162

6. Speech Recognition and Applications

   1. Domain Adaptation of a Broadcast News Transcription System for the Portuguese Parliament

      • Luís Neves, Ciro Martins, Hugo Meinedo, João Neto

      Pages 163-171

   2. Automatic Classification and Transcription of Telephone Speech in Radio Broadcast Data

      • Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, João Neto

      Pages 172-181

   3. A Platform of Distributed Speech Recognition for the European Portuguese Language

      • João Miranda, João P. Neto

      Pages 182-191

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics and anaphora resolution; speech synthesis; machine learning applied to natural language processing; speech recognition and applications; natural language processing tools and applications; posters.

• Syntax
• algorithms
• anaphora
• information extraction
• language processing
• machine translation
• natural language
• natural language processing
• ontology
• semantic
• semantics
• speech analysis
• speech processing
• speech recognition
• speech synthesis

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