Proceedings

 

Main event - full papers

Acoustic Similarity Scores for Keyword Spotting
Arlindo Veiga,Carla Calado Lopes,Luís Sá,Fernando Perdigão

Automatic Alignment of News Texts and their Multi-document Summaries: Comparison among Methods
Verônica Agostini,Roque E. Lopez Condori,Thiago Pardo

Automatic Identification of Proverb Variants: An experiment with Brazilian Portuguese
Amanda Rassi,Jorge Baptista,Oto Vale

Automatically Recognising European Portuguese Children's Speech: Pronunciation Patterns Revealed by an Analysis of ASR Errors
Annika Hamalainen,Hyongsil Cho,Sara Candeias,Thomas Pellegrini,Alberto Abad,Michael Tjalve,Isabel Trancoso,Miguel Dias

Body-Part Nouns and Whole-Part Relations in Portuguese
Ilia Markov,Nuno Mamede,Jorge Baptista

Characterizing Parkinson's Disease Speech by Acoustic and Phonetic Features
Jorge Proença,Arlindo Veiga,Sara Candeias,João Lemos,Cristina Januário,Fernando Perdigão

Extending a Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations with Data from Corpora
Cláudia Freitas,Valeria de Paiva,Alexandre Rademaker,Gerard de Melo,Livy Real,Anne de Araujo Correia da Silva

Improving Speech Recognition through Automatic Selection of Age Group Specific Acoustic Models
Annika Hamalainen,Hugo Meinedo,Michael Tjalve,Thomas Pellegrini,Isabel Trancoso,Miguel Dias

JMorpher: a Finite-State Morphological Parser in Java for Android
Leonel F. de Alencar,Mardônio França,Katiuscia Andrade,Philipp Costa,Henrique Vasconcelos,Francinaldo Madeira

Rule-based Algorithms for Automatic Pronunciation of Portuguese Verbal Inflections
Vanessa Marquiafável,Christopher Shulby,Arlindo Veiga,Jorge Proença,Sara Candeias,Fernando Perdigão

Tagging and Labeling Portuguese Modal Verbs
Paulo Quaresma,Amália Mendes,Iris Hendrickx,Teresa Gonçalves

Training State-of-the-Art Portuguese POS Taggers without Handcrafted Features
Cícero dos Santos,Bianca Zadrozny

Using Cross-linguistic Knowledge to Build VerbNet-style Lexicons: Results for a (Brazilian) Portuguese VerbNet
Carolina Scarton,Magali Duran,Sandra Aluísio

Using Rhetorical Structure Theory and Entity Grids to Automatically Evaluate Local Coherence in Texts
Márcio Dias,Valéria Feltrim,Thiago Pardo

 

Main event - short papers

Alignment-based Sentence Position Policy in a News Corpus for Multi-document Summarization
Fernando Antônio Nóbrega,Verônica Agostini,Renata Tironi de Camargo,Ariani Di Felippo,Thiago Pardo

brWaC: a WaCky Corpus for Brazilian Portuguese
Rodrigo Augusto Scheller Boos,Kassius Vargas Prestes,Aline Villavicencio,Muntsa Padró

Comparing NERP-CRF with Publicly Available Portuguese Named Entities Recognition Tools
Daniela do Amaral,Evandro Fonseca,Lucelene Lopes,Renata Vieira

Comparing semantic relatedness between word pairs in Portuguese using Wikipedia
Roger Granada,Cassia Trojahn dos Santos,Renata Vieira

Crowd Sourcing the Manual Annotation of Portuguese Causative Relations.
Brett Drury,Alan Valejo,Paula Figueira Cardoso,Fabio Pereira,Jorge Carlos Valverde Rebaza,Alneu Lopes

DeepBankPT and companion Portuguese treebanks in a multilingual collection of treebanks aligned with the Penn Treebank
Antonio Branco,Catarina Carvalheiro,Francisco Costa,Sérgio Castro,João Ricardo Silva,Cláudia Martins,Joana Ramos

Development of a lexical resource annotated with semantic roles for Portuguese
Leonardo Zilio

Gramateca: corpus-based grammar of Portuguese
Diana Santos

Identification of Brazilian Portuguese Causative Verbs through a Weighted Graph Classification Strategy.
Brett Drury,Alneu Lopes,Rafael Rossi

Identification of Related Brazilian Portuguese Verb Groups Using Overlapping Community Detection
Alan Valejo,Brett Drury,Jorge Carlos Valverde Rebaza,Alneu Lopes

Integrating Verbal Idioms into an NLP System
Jorge Baptista,Nuno Mamede,Ilia Markov

Lausanne: a Framework for Collaborative Online NLP Experiments
Douglas Iacovelli,Michelle Galindo,Ivandré Paraboni

On the utility of Portuguese term-based lexical-semantic networks
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

Rolling out Text Categorization for Language Learning Assessment supported by Language Technology
Antonio Branco,João Rodrigues,Francisco Costa,João Ricardo Silva,Rui Vaz

Semantic Textual Similarity of Portuguese-Language Texts: An Approach Based on the Semantic Inferentialism Model
Vladia Pinheiro,Vasco Furtado,Adriano Albuquerque

Semi-Supervised Parsing of Portuguese
Pablo Costa,Fábio Kepler

Temporal aspects of Content Recommendation on a Microblog Corpus
Caio Casimiro,Ivandré Paraboni

What We Can Learn from Looking at Profanity
Gustavo Laboreiro,Eugenio Oliveira

Words Temporality for Improving Query Expansion
Olga Craveiro,Joaquim Macedo,Henrique Madeira

 

PhD Dissertations

1. WINNER The creation of Onto.PT: a wordnet-like lexical ontology for Portuguese. 
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2. Processing Disfluencies in European Portuguese,
Helena Moniz. INESC-ID/CLUL, Portugal

3. Entropy-Guided Feature Induction for Structure Learning. 
Eraldo Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

4. Processing Temporal Information in Unstructured Documents. 
Francisco Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal

 

MSc/MA Dissertations

1. WINNER Investigation of General Purpose Word Sense Disambiguation for Nouns in Portuguese. 
Fernando Antônio Nóbrega, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

2. A Connectionist Approach to Semantic Role Labeling. 
Erick Fonseca, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

3. Coreference Resolution for Portuguese: Person, Location and Organization. 
Evandro Fonseca, PUCRS, Brazil

4. Verb Sense Disambiguation.
Tiago Travanca. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

 

Demos

A Tool for Entity Profiling Through Corpora Extraction
Lucelene Lopes, Nicolas Nascimento, and Renata Vieira

A web interface for language acquisition studies
Rodrigo Wilkens, Guilherme Schwade, Aline Villavicencio 

BuscaOpinioes: Searching for Opinions over the Internet
Pedro Paulo Balage Filho, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

Grafone – Online Grapheme to Phoneme Converter for European Portuguese
Arlindo Veiga, Sara Candeias, Fernando Perdigão

How to programatically access a free, distributed, Portuguese-based NLP API using "pypln.api"
Álvaro Justen, Flávio Amieiro, Renato Souza, Flávio Coelho

PETRUS: A rule-based grapheme-to-phone converter for Brazilian Portuguese
Vanessa Marquiafável, Alessandro Bokan, Claudia Zavaglia

 

ToRPorEsp workshop

The CINTIL and LX companion collections of language resources and tools for Portuguese
António Branco, João Silva, Francisco Costa, Sara Silveira, Patricia Gonçalves and João Rodrigues

Desarrollo de un parser HPSG estadístico para el español
Luis Chiruzzo and Dina Wonsever

Improving the Verb Lexicon of OpenWN-PT
Valeria De Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Claudia Freitas and Livy Real

Enriquecendo o Córpus CSTNews – a Criação de Novos Sumários Multidocumento
Márcio Dias, Thiago Pardo, Maria Lucia Castro Jorge, Alessandro Garay, Carla Chuman, Cláudia Barros, Erick Mazieiro, Fernando Nóbrega, Jackson Souza, Marco Cabezudo, Marina Delege, Naira Silva, Paula Cardoso, Pedro Balage, Roque Lopes, Vanessa Marcasso, Ariani Felippo and Maria Nunes

Lexical Resources for the Identification of Causative Relations in Portuguese Texts
Brett Drury, Paula Cardoso, Janie Thomas and Alneu de Andrade Lopes

Beyond the automatic construction of a lexical ontology for Portuguese: resources developed in the scope of Onto.PT
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

Filling the gap: inserting an artificial constituent where a subject is omitted in Portuguese
Nathan Hartmann, Magali Duran and Sandra Aluísio

Extração de paráfrases em português a partir de léxicos bilíngues: um estudo de caso
Paulo César Polastri, Helena De Medeiros Caseli and Eloize Rossi Marques Seno

Extending NomLex-PT using AnCora-Nom
Livy Real, Valeria De Paiva and Alexandre Rademaker

O Tratamento de Marcadores Discursivos em uma Ferramenta de Apoio à Escrita Acadêmica em Português Para Nativos de Espanhol
Lianet Sepúlveda Torres, Magali Sanches Duran and Sandra Maria Aluísio

Nos bastidores da Gramateca: uma série de serviços
Alberto Simões and Diana Santos

O Corpus CSTNews e sua Complementaridade Temporal
Jackson Souza and Ariani Di Felippo

Indução Automática de Léxico Bilíngue através de Aprendizado de Máquina Sem-Fim
Thiago Vieira and Helena Caseli

Towards a Phonetic Brazilian Portuguese Spell Checker
Lucas Vinicius Avanço, Magali Sanches Duran and Maria Das Graças Volpe Nunes

Building a Corpus for Named Entity Recognition using Portuguese Wikipedia and DBpedia
Cristofer Weber and Renata Vieira

Uma análise do perfil de entropia das estruturas sintáticas do português
Marcely Zanon Boito, Luiza Hagemann, Rodrigo Wilkens and Aline Villavicencio