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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. Natural Language Processing Applications

    1. Querying an Ontology Using Natural Language

      • Ana Marisa Salgueiro, Catarina Bilé Alves, João Balsa
      Pages 164-169
    2. Automatically Grading Brazilian Student Essays

      • Erick Fonseca, Ivo Medeiros, Dayse Kamikawachi, Alessandro Bokan
      Pages 170-179
    3. Analyzing Actions in Play-by-Forum RPG

      • Artur de Oliveira da Rocha Franco, José Wellington Franco da Silva, Vládia Célia Monteiro Pinheiro, José Gilvan Rodrigues Maia, Fernando Antonio de Carvalho Gomes, Miguel Franklin de Castro
      Pages 180-190
    4. Identifying Intensification Processes in Brazilian Sign Language in the Framework of Brazilian Portuguese Machine Translation

      • Francisco Aulísio dos S. Paiva, José Mario De Martino, Plínio A. Barbosa, Pablo P. F. Faria, Ivani R. Silva, Luciana A. Rosa
      Pages 201-210
    5. The Other C: Correcting OCR Words in the Presence of Diacritical Marks

      • Sérgio Luís Sardi Mergen, Leonardo de Abreu Schmidt
      Pages 222-230
    6. Temporal Tagging of Noisy Clinical Texts in Brazilian Portuguese

      • Rafael Faria de Azevedo, João Pedro Santos Rodrigues, Mayara Regina da Silva Reis, Claudia Maria Cabral Moro, Emerson Cabrera Paraiso
      Pages 231-241
    7. Syntactic Knowledge for Natural Language Inference in Portuguese

      • Erick Fonseca, Sandra M. Aluísio
      Pages 242-252
  2. Language Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
    2. RulingBR: A Summarization Dataset for Legal Texts

      • Diego de Vargas Feijó, Viviane Pereira Moreira
      Pages 255-264
    3. SIMPLEX-PB: A Lexical Simplification Database and Benchmark for Portuguese

      • Nathan S. Hartmann, Gustavo H. Paetzold, Sandra M. Aluísio
      Pages 272-283
    4. Analysing Semantic Resources for Coreference Resolution

      • Thiago Lima, Sandra Collovini, Ana Leal, Evandro Fonseca, Xiaoxuan Han, Siyu Huang et al.
      Pages 284-293
    5. Annotation of a Corpus of Tweets for Sentiment Analysis

      • Allisfrank dos Santos, Jorge Daniel Barros Júnior, Heloisa de Arruda Camargo
      Pages 294-302
    6. SICK-BR: A Portuguese Corpus for Inference

      • Livy Real, Ana Rodrigues, Andressa Vieira e Silva, Beatriz Albiero, Bruna Thalenberg, Bruno Guide et al.
      Pages 303-312
    7. LeNER-Br: A Dataset for Named Entity Recognition in Brazilian Legal Text

      • Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Teófilo E. de Campos, Renato R. R. de Oliveira, Matheus Stauffer, Samuel Couto, Paulo Bermejo
      Pages 313-323
    8. Contributions to the Study of Fake News in Portuguese: New Corpus and Automatic Detection Results

      • Rafael A. Monteiro, Roney L. S. Santos, Thiago A. S. Pardo, Tiago A. de Almeida, Evandro E. S. Ruiz, Oto A. Vale
      Pages 324-334
    9. Creating a Portuguese Context Sensitive Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis

      • Mateus Tarcinalli Machado, Thiago A. S. Pardo, Evandro Eduardo Seron Ruiz
      Pages 335-344
    10. A Parallel Corpus of Theses and Dissertations Abstracts

      • Felipe Soares, Gabrielli Harumi Yamashita, Michel Jose Anzanello
      Pages 345-352

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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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