Help texts and references for the Populus models are collected in a single large “portable document” file (pdf), accessible via Adobe Acrobat Reader. To minimize downloaded file sizes, we provide an English-language version as the default help system, with Spanish and Portuguese translations available as alternatives. At present, both the Spanish and Portuguese translations are incomplete, and ...

Cognitive impairment is a common dysfunction after neurological injury. Cognitive assessment tools can help the therapist understand how impairments are affecting functional status and quality of life. Objective The aim of the study was to identify instruments for cognitive assessment that Occupational Therapists (OT) can use in clinical practice. Methods The instruments published in Englis...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR), commonly known as speech-to-text, is the process of transcribing audio recordings into text, i.e., transforming respective sequence words. This paper presents a deep learning ASR system optimization and evaluation for European Portuguese language. We present pipeline composed several stages data acquisition, analysis, pre-processing, model creation, evaluatio...

This article presents a statistical study of WPT05, a text corpus derived from a crawl of the Portuguese Web performed in 2005. This corpus is a valuable resource for researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP). As one of the biggest publicly available collections of European Portuguese texts, we provide statistical analyses of the contents, covering the languages identified, the represent...

In this paper, we introduce TimeBankPT, a TimeML annotated corpus of Portuguese. It has been produced by adapting an existing resource for English, namely the data used in the first TempEval challenge. TimeBankPT is the first corpus of Portuguese with rich temporal annotations (i.e. it includes annotations not only of temporal expressions but also about events and temporal relations). In additi...

A Question Answering (QA) system should provide a short and precise answer to a question in natural language, by searching a large knowledge base consisting of natural language text. The sources of the knowledge base are widely available, for written natural language text is a preferential form of human communication. The information ranges from the more traditional edited texts, for example en...

For the 2005 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, Thomson Legal and Regulatory participated in the Hungarian, French, and Portuguese monolingual search tasks as well as French-to-Portuguese bilingual retrieval. Our Hungarian participation focused on comparing the effectiveness of different approaches toward morphological stemming. Our French and Portuguese monolingual efforts focused on different a...

OBJECTIVE To translate and culturally adapt the Living with Asthma Questionnaire (LWAQ) to the Portuguese language and to test its reliability and validity. METHODS The Portuguese version of this disease-specific health-related quality of life measure was obtained with forward/backward translations, consensus panels and a pre-test. The Portuguese LWAQ and Medical Outcomes Study - 36 item Shor...

This paper reports on the work done on vocabulary and language model daily adaptation for a European Portuguese broadcast news transcription system. The proposed adaptation framework takes into consideration European Portuguese language characteristics, such as its high level of inflection and complex verbal system. A multi-pass speech recognition framework using contemporary written texts avai...

This article presents the techniques that are being used for the creation of a database related to the Brazilian Portuguese language. This database is composed of a collection of recorded voices, from different speakers and different regions of Brazil. The collected voices contain varied phonetic and phonologic information. The applications of this database are diverse, including synthesis and ...