A Survey on Generic Impersonal Structures in Brazilian Portuguese

The Semantics of Generic Quantification in Brazilian Portuguese

This paper investigates the semantics of kind-referring expressions and of generic quantification in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). It may thus be taken as a contribution to the development of a more accurate understanding of genericity as a crosslinguistic phenomenon. In BP genericity may be expressed by both definite singular (1) and definite plural (2) nominals, and also by indefinite nominals s...

A Normalizer for UGC in Brazilian Portuguese

User-generated contents (UGC) represent an important source of information for governments, companies, political candidates and consumers. However, most of the Natural Language Processing tools and techniques are developed from and for texts of standard language, and UGC is a type of text especially full of creativity and idiosyncrasies, which represents noise for NLP purposes. This paper prese...

Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

A Survey on Omega Polynomial of Some Nano Structures

A First Approach to the Automatic Detection of Zero Subjects and Impersonal Constructions in Portuguese

In this paper we present a first approximation to the automatic detection of zero subjects and impersonal constructions in Brazilian Portuguese. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt of approaching such task using machine learning in Portuguese. We compiled a corpus containing more than 5,600 instances annotated with the classes to be identified: explicit subjects, zero subjec...