Compiling and Processing Historical and Contemporary Portuguese Corpora

[email protected] University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany Abstract This technical report describes the framework used for processing three large Portuguese corpora. Two corpora contain texts from newspapers, one published in Brazil and the other published in Portugal. The third corpus is Colonia, a historical Portuguese collection containing texts written between the 16 and the early 20 century. The report presents pre-processing methods, segmentation, and annotation of the corpora as well as indexing and querying methods. Finally, it presents published research papers using the corpora.