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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

8th International Conference, PROPOR 2008 Aveiro, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008, Proceedings

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  1. António Teixeira
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  2. Vera Lúcia Strube Lima
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  3. Luís Caldas Oliveira
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5190)

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 2008.

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Natural Language Processing Tools and Applications

    1. Supporting e-Learning with Language Technology for Portuguese

      • Mariana Avelãs, António Branco, Rosa Del Gaudio, Pedro Martins
      Pages 192-201

    2. ParaMT: A Paraphraser for Machine Translation

      • Anabela Barreiro
      Pages 202-211

  2. POSTERS

    1. Natural Language Processing

      1. Second HAREM: New Challenges and Old Wisdom
        • Diana Santos, Cláudia Freitas, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Paula Carvalho
        Pages 212-215
      2. Floresta Sintá(c)tica: Bigger, Thicker and Easier
        • Cláudia Freitas, Paulo Rocha, Eckhard Bick
        Pages 216-219
      3. The Identification and Description of Frozen Prepositional Phrases through a Corpus-Oriented Study
        • Milena Garrão, Violeta Quental, Nuno Caminada, Eckhard Bick
        Pages 220-223
      4. CorrefSum: Referencial Cohesion Recovery in Extractive Summaries
        • Patrícia Nunes Gonçalves, Renata Vieira, Lucia Helena Machado Rino
        Pages 224-227
      5. Answering Portuguese Questions
        • Luís Fernando Costa, Luís Miguel Cabral
        Pages 228-231
      6. XisQuê: An Online QA Service for Portuguese
        • António Branco, Lino Rodrigues, João Silva, Sara Silveira
        Pages 232-235
      7. Using Semantic Prototypes for Discourse Status Classification
        • Sandra Collovini, Luiz Carlos Ribeiro Jr., Patricia Nunes Gonçalves, Vinicius Muller, Renata Vieira
        Pages 236-239
      8. Using System Expectations to Manage User Interactions
        • Filipe M. Martins, Ana Mendes, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, João P. Neto
        Pages 240-243

    2. Speech and Language Processing

      2. On the Voiceless Aspirated Stops in Brazilian Portuguese
        • Mariane Antero Alves, Izabel Christine Seara, Fernando Santana Pacheco, Simone Klein, Rui Seara
        Pages 248-251
      3. Comparison of Phonetic Segmentation Tools for European Portuguese
        • Luís Figueira, Luís C. Oliveira
        Pages 252-255
      4. Spoltech and OGI-22 Baseline Systems for Speech Recognition in Brazilian Portuguese
        • Nelson Neto, Patrick Silva, Aldebaro Klautau, Andre Adami
        Pages 256-259
      5. Development of a Speech Recognizer with the Tecnovoz Database
        • José Lopes, Cláudio Neves, Arlindo Veiga, Alexandre Maciel, Carla Lopes, Fernando Perdigão et al.
        Pages 260-263
      6. Dynamic Language Modeling for the European Portuguese
        • Ciro Martins, António Teixeira, João Neto
        Pages 264-267
      7. An Approach to Natural Language Equation Reading in Digital Talking Books
        • Carlos Juzarte Rolo, António Joaquim Serralheiro
        Pages 268-271
      8. Topic Segmentation in a Media Watch System
        • Rui Amaral, Isabel Trancoso
        Pages 272-275

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics and anaphora resolution; speech synthesis; machine learning applied to natural language processing; speech recognition and applications; natural language processing tools and applications; posters.
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