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Timber! Issues in Treebank Building and Use

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2003)

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We discuss several treebank conceptions in the literature and show that their requirements may be incompatible, describing then the options taken in the construction of a Portuguese treebank, in what concerns human vs. automatic intervention. Use cases are then listed in connection with a Web search tool (Águia), whose philosophy and implementation is presented.

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  1. Linguateca, SINTEF Telecom & Informatics, Pb 1124, 0314, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

    Diana Santos

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  1. L2F, INESC-ID Lisboa, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede  & Isabel Trancoso  & 

  2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  3. NILC, ICMC-USP São-Carlos, Av. do Trabalhador São-Carlense, 400, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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Santos, D. (2003). Timber! Issues in Treebank Building and Use. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_22

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