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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Tomar, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings

  • João Silva
  • Ricardo Ribeiro
  • Paulo Quaresma
  • André Adami
  • António Branco
Conference proceedings PROPOR 2016

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9727)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 9727)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Language Applications – Full Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Extending VITHEA in Order to Improve Children’s Linguistic Skills
      Vânia Mendonça
      Pages 3-11
    3. Automatic Classification of the Complexity of Nonfiction Texts in Portuguese for Early School Years
      Nathan Hartmann, Livia Cucatto, Danielle Brants, Sandra Aluísio
      Pages 12-24
    4. Improving Question-Answering for Portuguese Using Triples Extracted from Corpora
      Ricardo Rodrigues, Paulo Gomes
      Pages 25-37
    5. Applying Lexical-Conceptual Knowledge for Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
      Ariani Di Felippo, Fabrício E. S. Tosta, Thiago A. S. Pardo
      Pages 38-49
    6. Domain-Specific Hybrid Machine Translation from English to Portuguese
      João Rodrigues, Luís Gomes, Steven Neale, Andreia Querido, Nuno Rendeiro, Sanja Štajner et al.
      Pages 50-61
    7. Analysis of Temporal Adverbial Phrases for Portuguese–Chinese Machine Translation
      Siyou Liu, Ana Luisa Varani Leal
      Pages 62-73
    8. Determining the Level of Clients’ Dissatisfaction from Their Commentaries
      Ana Catarina Forte, Pavel B. Brazdil
      Pages 74-85
    9. Comparing Approaches to Subjectivity Classification: A Study on Portuguese Tweets
      Silvia M. W. Moraes, André L. L. Santos, Matheus Redecker, Rackel M. Machado, Felipe R. Meneguzzi
      Pages 86-94
    10. TOPIE: An Open-Source Opinion Mining Pipeline to Analyze Consumers’ Sentiment in Brazilian Portuguese
      Ellen Souza, Tiago Alves, Ingryd Teles, Adriano L. I. Oliveira, Cristine Gusmão
      Pages 95-105

  3. Language Applications – Short Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 107-107
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    2. Evaluating Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease by Regression and Classification Methods in a Narrative Language Test in Portuguese
      Sandra Aluísio, Andre Cunha, Carolina Scarton
      Pages 109-114
    3. A Comparative Evaluation of QA Systems over List Questions
      Patricia Nunes Gonçalves, António Horta Branco
      Pages 115-121
    4. Characterizing Opinion Mining: A Systematic Mapping Study of the Portuguese Language
      Ellen Souza, Douglas Vitório, Dayvid Castro, Adriano L. I. Oliveira, Cristine Gusmão
      Pages 122-127
    5. Finding Compositional Rules for Determining the Semantic Orientation of Phrases
      António Paulo Santos, Carlos Ramos, Nuno Marques
      Pages 128-133
    6. Sentiment Analysis for Brazilian Portuguese over a Skewed Class Corpora
      Henrico Brum, Filipe Araujo, Fabio Kepler
      Pages 134-138

  4. Language Processing – Full Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 139-139
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    2. Semantic Relation Extraction. Resources, Tools and Strategies
      Marcos Garcia
      Pages 141-152
    3. Extracting and Structuring Open Relations from Portuguese Text
      Sandra Collovini, Gabriel Machado, Renata Vieira
      Pages 153-164
    4. Towards Keyphrase Assignment for Texts in Portuguese Language
      Raquel Silveira, Vasco Furtado, Vládia Pinheiro
      Pages 165-176
    5. Entity Linking with Distributional Semantics
      Pablo Gamallo, Marcos Garcia
      Pages 177-188
    6. Syntax Deep Explorer
      José Correia, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede
      Pages 189-201
    7. Automatic Semantic Role Labeling on Non-revised Syntactic Trees of Journalistic Texts
      Nathan Siegle Hartmann, Magali Sanches Duran, Sandra Maria Aluísio
      Pages 202-212
    8. Improving Coreference Resolution with Semantic Knowledge
      Evandro Fonseca, Renata Vieira, Aline Vanin
      Pages 213-224

  5. Language Processing – Short Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 225-225
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    2. Improving POS Tagging Across Portuguese Variants with Word Embeddings
      Erick Rocha Fonseca, Sandra Maria Aluísio
      Pages 227-232
    3. Joining Forces for Multiword Expression Identification
      Leonardo Zilio, Rodrigo Wilkens, Luís Möllmann, Eric Wehrli, Silvio Cordeiro, Aline Villavicencio
      Pages 233-238
    4. A Construction Grammar Approach for Pronominal Clitics in European Portuguese
      Tânia Marques, Katrien Beuls
      Pages 239-244
    5. Investigating Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence Compression in Different Application Contexts for Portuguese
      Fernando Antônio Asevedo Nóbrega, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo
      Pages 245-250
    6. A Model for Textual Entailment Based on Linguistic Rules
      Evandro Metz Flores, Sandro José Rigo
      Pages 251-255

  6. Language Resources – Full Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 257-257
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    2. LX-DSemVectors: Distributional Semantics Models for Portuguese
      João Rodrigues, António Branco, Steven Neale, João Silva
      Pages 259-270
    3. Making Virtue of Necessity: A Verb Lexicon
      Valeria de Paiva, Fabricio Chalub, Livy Real, Alexandre Rademaker
      Pages 271-282
    4. CONTO.PT: Groundwork for the Automatic Creation of a Fuzzy Portuguese Wordnet
      Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
      Pages 283-295
    5. Lexical Semantics Annotation for Enriched Portuguese Corpora
      Steven Neale, Rita Valadas Pereira, João Silva, António Branco
      Pages 296-305
    6. Crawling by Readability Level
      Jorge A. Wagner Filho, Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio
      Pages 306-318
    7. Towards a Statistical-Enriched Corpus Containing Portuguese Collocations in Use: Reviewing Possible Extraction Tools
      Ângela Costa, Luísa Coheur
      Pages 319-329

  7. Language Resources – Short Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 331-331
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    2. The Portuguese B\(^2\)SG: A Semantic Test for Distributional Thesaurus
      Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Eduardo Ferreira, Aline Villavicencio
      Pages 333-339
    3. Automatic Generation of Internet Memes from Portuguese News Headlines
      Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Diogo Costa, Alexandre Miguel Pinto
      Pages 340-346
    4. FrameNet-Based Automatic Suggestion of Translation Equivalents
      Simone Peron-Corrêa, Alexandre Diniz, Meire Lara, Ely Matos, Tiago Torrent
      Pages 347-352
    5. Building a Question-Answering Corpus Using Social Media and News Articles
      Paulo Cavalin, Flavio Figueiredo, Maíra de Bayser, Luis Moyano, Heloisa Candello, Ana Appel et al.
      Pages 353-358

  8. Speech Processing – Full Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 359-359
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    2. Evaluating Phonetic Spellers for User-Generated Content in Brazilian Portuguese
      Gustavo Augusto de Mendonça Almeida, Lucas Avanço, Magali Sanches Duran, Erick Rocha Fonseca, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Sandra Maria Aluísio
      Pages 361-373
    3. An Automatic Phonetic Aligner for Brazilian Portuguese with a Praat Interface
      Gleidson Souza, Nelson Neto
      Pages 374-384
    4. Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance
      Jorge Proença, Dirce Celorico, Carla Lopes, Miguel Sales Dias, Michael Tjalve, Andreas Stolcke et al.
      Pages 385-395
  9. Back Matter
    Pages 397-398
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About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016, held in Tomar, Portugal, in July 2016.

The 23 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: language applications, language processing, and language resources.

Keywords

distributional semantics lexical semantics machine translation semantic knowledge speech processing distance-learning graphic interface hybrid machine translation information extraction information retrieval language comprehension language resources machine learning natural language processing ontologies opinion mining question answering sentiment analysis summarization text mining

Editors and affiliations

  • João Silva
    • 1
  • Ricardo Ribeiro
    • 2
  • Paulo Quaresma
    • 3
  • André Adami
    • 4
  • António Branco
    • 5
  1. 1.Universidade de LisbonPortugal
  2. 2.ISCTE-IULLisbonPortugal
  3. 3.Universidade de ÉvoraÉvoraPortugal
  4. 4.Universidade de Caxias do SulCaxias do SuöBrazil
  5. 5.Universidade de LisbonLisboaPortugal

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9
  • Copyright Information Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Computer Science Computer Science (R0)
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-41551-2
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-41552-9
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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