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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

11th International Conference, PROPOR 2014, Sao Carlos/SP, Brazil, October 6-8, 2014, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Jorge Baptista

    1. FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

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  2. Nuno Mamede

    1. INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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  3. Sara Candeias

    1. IT-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  4. Ivandré Paraboni

    1. USP-EACH, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

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  5. Thiago A. S. Pardo

    1. USP-ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

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  6. Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

    1. SCC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8775)

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

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Table of contents (35 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Speech Language Processing and Applications

    1. Automatically Recognising European Portuguese Children’s Speech

      • Annika Hämäläinen, Hyongsil Cho, Sara Candeias, Thomas Pellegrini, Alberto Abad, Michael Tjalve et al.
      Pages 1-11

    2. Improving Speech Recognition through Automatic Selection of Age Group – Specific Acoustic Models

      • Annika Hämäläinen, Hugo Meinedo, Michael Tjalve, Thomas Pellegrini, Isabel Trancoso, Miguel Sales Dias
      Pages 12-23

    3. Characterizing Parkinson’s Disease Speech by Acoustic and Phonetic Features

      • Jorge Proença, Arlindo Veiga, Sara Candeias, João Lemos, Cristina Januário, Fernando Perdigão
      Pages 24-35

    4. Rule-Based Algorithms for Automatic Pronunciation of Portuguese Verbal Inflections

      • Vanessa Marquiafável, Christopher Shulby, Arlindo Veiga, Jorge Proença, Sara Candeias, Fernando Perdigão
      Pages 36-47

    5. Acoustic Similarity Scores for Keyword Spotting

      • Arlindo Veiga, Carla Lopes, Luís Sá, Fernando Perdigão
      Pages 48-58

  3. Linguistic Description, Syntax and Parsing

    1. JMorpher: A Finite-State Morphological Parser in Java for Android

      • Leonel F. de Alencar, Mardonio J. C. França, Katiuscia M. Andrade, Philipp B. Costa, Henrique S. Vasconcelos, Francinaldo P. Madeira
      Pages 59-69

    2. Tagging and Labelling Portuguese Modal Verbs

      • Paulo Quaresma, Amália Mendes, Iris Hendrickx, Teresa Gonçalves
      Pages 70-81

    3. Training State-of-the-Art Portuguese POS Taggers without Handcrafted Features

      • Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Bianca Zadrozny
      Pages 82-93

    4. General Purpose Word Sense Disambiguation Methods for Nouns in Portuguese

      • Fernando Antônio Asevedo Nóbrega, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo
      Pages 94-101

    5. Semi-supervised Parsing of Portuguese

      • Pablo Botton da Costa, Fabio Natanael Kepler
      Pages 102-107

    6. What We Can Learn from Looking at Profanity

      • Gustavo Laboreiro, Eugénio Oliveira
      Pages 108-113

  4. Ontologies, Semantics and Lexicography

    1. Extending a Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations with Data from Corpora

      • Cláudia Freitas, Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo, Livy Real, Anne Silva
      Pages 114-124

    2. Body-Part Nouns and Whole-Part Relations in Portuguese

      • Ilia Markov, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
      Pages 125-136

    3. Proverb Variation: Experiments on Automatic Detection in Brazilian Portuguese Texts

      • Amanda Rassi, Jorge Baptista, Oto Vale
      Pages 137-148

    4. Using Cross-Linguistic Knowledge to Build VerbNet-Style Lexicons: Results for a (Brazilian) Portuguese VerbNet

      • Carolina Scarton, Magali Sanches Duran, Sandra Maria Aluísio
      Pages 149-160

    5. The Creation of Onto.PT: A Wordnet-Like Lexical Ontology for Portuguese

      • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
      Pages 161-169

    6. Comparing Semantic Relatedness between Word Pairs in Portuguese Using Wikipedia

      • Roger Granada, Cassia Trojahn, Renata Vieira
      Pages 170-175

    7. On the Utility of Portuguese Term-Based Lexical-Semantic Networks

      • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
      Pages 176-182

    8. Semantic Textual Similarity of Portuguese-Language Texts: An Approach Based on the Semantic Inferentialism Model

      • Vládia Pinheiro, Vasco Furtado, Adriano Albuquerque
      Pages 183-188
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2014, held in Sao Carlos, Brazil, in October 2014. The 14 full papers and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: speech language processing and applications; linguistic description, syntax and parsing; ontologies, semantics and lexicography; corpora and language resources and natural language processing, tools and applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  • INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

  • IT-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sara Candeias

  • USP-EACH, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

    Ivandré Paraboni

  • USP-ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

    Thiago A. S. Pardo

  • SCC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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