Galician Portuguese Medieval Poetry and the Iberian Interliterary System

Phonological Soundscapes in Medieval Poetry

The oral component of medieval poetry was integral to its performance and reception. Yet many believe that the medieval voice has been forever lost, and any attempts at rediscovering it are doomed to failure due to scribal practices, manuscript mouvance, and linguistic normalization in editing practices. This paper offers a method to abstract from this noise and better understand relative diffe...

Portuguese Narrative Poetry

Bootstrapping a Portuguese WordNet from Galician, Spanish and English Wordnets

In this article we exploit the possibility on bootstrapping an European Portuguese WordNet from the English, Spanish and Galician wordnets using Probabilistic Translation Dictionaries automatically created from parallel corpora. The process generated a total of 56 770 synsets and 97 058 variants. An evaluation of the results using the Brazilian OpenWordNet-PT as a gold standard resulted on a pr...

Hélia, Heloísa and Helena: new HTS systems in European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Galician

Hélia, Heloísa and Helena are the new Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems for European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Galician, respectively, using state of the art HTS (HMM-based speech synthesis) technology developed at Microsoft. The three TTS systems are presented together as they share most of their modules, namely the same back-end engine and most of the front-end rules. The main differenc...

Encoding Medieval Abbreviations for Computer Analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese Non-literary Sources)

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of handling scribal abbreviations in TEI-conformant transcriptions of medieval texts, following a conservative editorial strategy. A key distinction is drawn between alphabetic abbreviations, which represent sequences of letters, and logographic abbreviations which represent whole words. The TEI elements and can be used systematical...