The Portuguese Constitution, in article 22, instituted the general principle of tort liability of the State and other public law entities. Consequently, ordinary legislation established the tort liability of the State into the Portuguese Legal Order, by means of Decree-Law 48051, of 1967. This decree, which was criticised extensively, was amended by virtue of Law 67/2007, of 31 December, establ...

Portuguese dictionaries lack information about the kind of phrases or clauses a verb goes with. In this paper we describe how this information can be computationally learned from an automatically tagged corpus with almost 10,000,000 words. Loglinear modeling for categorical data will be used to analyze and automatically identify the subcatego-rization dependencies. Loglinear models were also us...

In this paper we report the work done by Linguateca in order to add Portuguese to two tracks of CLEF, namely the adhoc IR task and the QA task. We start by a brief description of Linguateca's aims and the way we see CLEF from the standpoint of Portuguese language processing; we then document several interesting problems posed by the tasks we added to organize, and offer some suggestions for imp...

This work describes the participation of the FORMAS group from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in the Shared Task on Collective Elaboration of a Coreference Annotated Corpus for Portuguese Texts for IberEval 2017. As such, it describes the creation of a corpus annotated with coreference information for the Portuguese language. We discuss the choices adopted oin the annotation process, as wel...

INTRODUCTION Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), are cnidarians capable of discharging intracellular organelles filled with venom, resulting in severe envenomation in humans. METHODS We report the clinical and therapeutic aspects of 331 accidents involving Portuguese man-of-war in an outbreak on the coast of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. RESULTS The clinical manifes...

Besides synsets and semantic relations, synset glosses are an important feature of wordnets. However, due to the required effort, their creation is sometimes left undone. This happens in Onto.PT, a Portuguese wordnet created automatically, which does not have glosses. In our work, we exploited Portuguese dictionaries to automatically assign definitions to the synsets of Onto.PT. For this purpos...

This study reexamines the semantics of the Portuguese Present Perfect and proposes ananalysis of this periphrastic past that does not appeal to type-shifting coercionmechanisms. Aspectual coercion was claimed to explain purported mismatches betweenselection restrictions of the Portuguese Present tense and the aspectual properties of thePerfect (Schmitt 2001). The present stu...

This paper summarizes the work that has been done concerning the Portuguese language in the scope of the ALERT project during its first year. The media watch system that is the goal of this project comprises many different modules, some of them common among the three languages of the project. This paper concentrates on the definition and collection of the necessary linguistic resources for Port...

Anaphora resolution is an essential component of most NLP applications, from text understanding to Machine Translation. In this work we discuss a supervised machine learning approach to the problem, focusing on instances of anaphora ubiquitously found in a corpus of Brazilian Portuguese texts, namely, third-person pronominal references. Although still limited to a subset of the more general co-...

OBJECTIVES to perform the cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure into the Brazilian Portuguese language. METHOD the method complied with international recommendations for this type of study and was composed of the following steps: translation of the instrument into the Portuguese language; reaching consensus over the translated versions; assessment by an expert committee; back t...