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Analysis of the rhetorical structure of computer science abstracts in Portuguese

It is widely acknowledged that academic writing is a complex task even for native speakers, since it involves the complexities of the writing process as well as those specific to the academic genre (Sharples and Pemberton 1992). To make it worse, especially to novice writers, often the demands of the academic genre are not clear enough. A number of writing tools have been described in the liter...

Sense - related items and lexical patterning in English and Portuguese scientific abstracts

Issues with Publishing Abstracts in English: Challenges for Portuguese Linguists' Authorial Voices

This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data show ...

Automatic Analysis of Semantic Coherence in Academic Abstracts Written in Portuguese

SciPo is a system whose ultimate goal is to support novice writers in producing academic texts in Brazilian Portuguese through presentation of critiques and suggestions. Currently, it focuses on the rhetorical structure of texts, being capable of automatically detecting and criticizing the rhetorical structure of Abstract sections. We describe a system that enhances SciPo’s functionality by eva...