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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

14th International Conference, PROPOR 2020, Evora, Portugal, March 2–4, 2020, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12037)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): PROPOR: International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

Conference proceedings info: PROPOR 2020.

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Speech Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Towards Automatic Determination of Critical Gestures for European Portuguese Sounds

      • Samuel Silva, Conceição Cunha, António Teixeira, Arun Joseph, Jens Frahm
      Pages 3-12
    3. Comparison of Heterogeneous Feature Sets for Intonation Verification

      • Mariana Julião, Alberto Abad, Helena Moniz
      Pages 13-22
    4. The BioVisualSpeech European Portuguese Sibilants Corpus

      • Margarida Grilo, Isabel Guimarães, Mariana Ascensão, Alberto Abad, Ivo Anjos, João Magalhães et al.
      Pages 23-33
    5. Evaluation and Extensions of an Automatic Speech Therapy Platform

      • Anna Pompili, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, José Fonseca, Isabel P. Martins
      Pages 43-52
  3. Resources and Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. A Dataset for the Evaluation of Lexical Simplification in Portuguese for Children

      • Nathan S. Hartmann, Gustavo H. Paetzold, Sandra M. Aluísio
      Pages 55-64
    3. Situational Irony in Farcical News Headlines

      • Paula Carvalho, Bruno Martins, Hugo Rosa, Silvio Amir, Jorge Baptista, Mário J. Silva
      Pages 65-75
    4. Inferring the Source of Official Texts: Can SVM Beat ULMFiT?

      • Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Teófilo Emidio de Campos, Marcelo Magalhães Silva de Sousa
      Pages 76-86
    5. Aligning IATE Criminal Terminology to SUMO

      • Daniela Schmidt, Avner Dal Bosco, Cássia Trojahn, Renata Vieira, Paulo Quaresma
      Pages 98-108
    6. The Construction of a Corpus from the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary

      • Lucas Ribeiro, Jaqueline P. Zulini, Alexandre Rademaker
      Pages 109-117
  4. Natural Language Processing Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Leveraging on Semantic Textual Similarity for Developing a Portuguese Dialogue System

      • José Santos, Ana Alves, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
      Pages 131-142
    3. Fake News Detection on Fake.Br Using Hierarchical Attention Networks

      • Emerson Yoshiaki Okano, Zebin Liu, Donghong Ji, Evandro Eduardo Seron Ruiz
      Pages 143-152
    4. Screening of Email Box in Portuguese with SVM at Banco do Brasil

      • Rafael Faria de Azevedo, Rafael Rodrigues Pereira de Araujo, Rodrigo Guimarães Araújo, Régis Moreira Bittencourt, Rafael Ferreira Alves da Silva, Gabriel de Melo Vaz Nogueira et al.
      Pages 153-163
    5. Back to the Feature, in Entailment Detection and Similarity Measurement for Portuguese

      • Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma
      Pages 164-173

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2020, held in Evora, Portugal, in March 2020.

The 36 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They are grouped in topical sections on speech processing; resources and evaluation; natural language processing applications; semantics; natural language processing tasks; and multilinguality.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Évora, Evora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira, Teresa Gonçalves

  • University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

    Sandra Aluísio

  • University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Helena Moniz

  • INESC-ID/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

    Fernando Batista

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