Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

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

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.

• clustering
• complex networks
• computational semantics
• crowd-sourcing
• deep learning
• grammar
• language resources
• linguistic description
• morphology
• natural language processing
• phonetics
• phonology
• semantic similarity
• speech processing
• text clustering

• 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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