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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

13th International Conference, PROPOR 2018, Canela, Brazil, September 24–26, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11122)

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 2018.

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Table of contents (49 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
  2. Corpus Linguistics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Analyzing the Rhetorical Structure of Opinion Articles in the Context of a Brazilian College Entrance Examination

      • Karina Soares dos Santos, Mariana Soder, Bruna Stefany Batista Marques, Valéria Delisandra Feltrim
      Pages 3-12
    3. A Corpus Study of Verbal Multiword Expressions in Brazilian Portuguese

      • Carlos Ramisch, Renata Ramisch, Leonardo Zilio, Aline Villavicencio, Silvio Cordeiro
      Pages 24-34
  3. Information Extraction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. Nominal Coreference Resolution Using Semantic Knowledge

      • Evandro Fonseca, Aline Vanin, Renata Vieira
      Pages 37-45
    3. Pragmatic Information Extraction in Brazilian Portuguese Documents

      • Cleiton Fernando Lima Sena, Daniela Barreiro Claro
      Pages 46-56
    4. Concordance Comparison as a Means of Assembling Local Grammars

      • Juliana P. C. Pirovani, Elias de Oliveira, Eric Laporte
      Pages 57-65
    5. Challenges of an Annotation Task for Open Information Extraction in Portuguese

      • Rafael Glauber, Leandro Souza de Oliveira, Cleiton Fernando Lima Sena, Daniela Barreiro Claro, Marlo Souza
      Pages 66-76
    6. Portuguese Named Entity Recognition Using LSTM-CRF

      • Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Nádia Félix Felipe da Silva, Anderson da Silva Soares
      Pages 83-92
    7. Disambiguating Open IE: Identifying Semantic Similarity in Relation Extraction by Word Embeddings

      • Leandro M. P. Sanches, Victor S. Cardel, Larissa S. Machado, Marlo Souza, Lais N. Salvador
      Pages 93-103
  4. Natural Language Processing Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Personality Recognition from Facebook Text

      • Barbara Barbosa Claudino da Silva, Ivandré Paraboni
      Pages 107-114
    3. Portuguese Native Language Identification

      • Shervin Malmasi, Iria del Río, Marcos Zampieri
      Pages 115-124
    4. Text-Image Alignment in Portuguese News Using LinkPICS

      • Wellington Cristiano Veltroni, Helena de Medeiros Caseli
      Pages 125-135
    5. When, Where, Who, What or Why? A Hybrid Model to Question Answering Systems

      • Eduardo G. Cortes, Vinicius Woloszyn, Dante A. C. Barone
      Pages 136-146
    6. Indexing Names of Persons in a Large Dataset of a Newspaper

      • Juliana P. C. Pirovani, Matheus Nogueira, Elias de Oliveira
      Pages 147-155
    7. ACA - Learning with Alternative Communication

      • Maria Renata de Mira Gobbo, Cinthyan Renata Sachs C. de Barbosa, José Luiz Villela Marcondes Mioni, Fernanda Mafort
      Pages 156-163

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About this book



This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2018, held in Canela, RS, Brazil, in September 2018.


The 42 full papers, 3 short papers and 4 other papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Corpus Linguistics, Information Extraction, Language
Applications, Language Resources, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Speech Processing, and Syntax and Parsing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Aline Villavicencio

  • Instituto de Informática - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Viviane Moreira

  • INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

    Alberto Abad

  • UFSCAR, Sao Carlos, Brazil

    Helena Caseli

  • Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Pablo Gamallo

  • Université de Toulon, Parc Scientifique Technologique Luminy, Marseille, France

    Carlos Ramisch

  • Centro de Informática e Sistemas, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

  • Federal University of Technology, Dois Vizinhos, Brazil

    Gustavo Henrique Paetzold

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