Abstract
A mixed corpus of Portuguese is one in which texts of different origins produce different spelling variants for the same word. A new norm, which will bring together the written texts produced both in Portugal and Brazil, giving then a more uniform orthography, has been effective since 2009, but what happens in the perspective of search, to corpora created before the norm came into practice, or within the transition period? Is the information they contain outdated and worthless? Do they need to be converted to the new norm? In the present work we analyse these questions.
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Carvalho, G., Falé, I., de Matos, D.M., Rocio, V. (2012). Searching a Mixed Corpus in the Light of the New Portuguese Orthographic Norm. In: Caseli, H., Villavicencio, A., Teixeira, A., Perdigão, F. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_6
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