The paper presents an algorithm for read common numbers until one million in Portuguese language. The record and cutting process of the digit speech sounds deserved a special attention to improve the speech sound output. A special attention is required for the correct inclusion of the particle ‘e’ (and) to provide better naturalness of the read numbers. The system has the ability of simulate th...

Vision-based hand gesture recognition is an area of active current research in computer vision and machine learning. Being a natural way of human interaction, it is an area where many researchers are working on, with the goal of making human computer interaction (HCI) easier and natural, without the need for any extra devices. So, the primary goal of gesture recognition research is to create sy...

Up-to-date language modeling is recognized to be a critical aspect of maintaining the level of performance for a speech recognizer over time for most applications. In particular for applications such as transcription of broadcast news and conversations where the occurrence of new words is very frequent, especially for highly inflected languages like the European Portuguese. An unsupervised adap...

Current language identification systems vary significantly in their complexity. The systems that use higher level linguistic information have the best performance. Nevertheless, that information is hard to collect for each new language. The system presented in this paper is easily extendable to new languages because it uses very little linguistic information. In fact, the presented system needs...

PURPOSE To determine the association between language and number of citations of ophthalmology articles published in Brazilian journals. METHODS This study was a systematic review. Original articles were identified by review of documents published at the two Brazilian ophthalmology journals indexed at Science Citation Index Expanded - SCIE ["Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia (ABO)" and "Re...

INTRODUCTION The concept of quality of life is subjective and variable definition, which depends on the individual's perception of their state of health. Quality of life questionnaires are instruments designed to measure quality of life, but most are developed in a language other than Portuguese. Questionnaires can identify the most important symptoms, focus on consultation, and assist in defin...

The present study investigates the realization of informationseeking yes-no questions in two contact varieties, Olivenza Portuguese and Olivenza Spanish, in comparison with Castilian Spanish. We aim to: (1) describe the use of prenuclear pitch accents and nuclear configurations and the durational properties of prenuclear, nuclear, and IP-final syllables in this sentence type; (2) compare the in...

Department of Luis Gustavo Modelli Andrade Internal Medicine Fábio Duarte Garcia Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade Vanessa Santos Silva de Medicina de Botucatu Daniela Ponce Gabriel UNESP Antonio Gonçalves Rodrigues Jr Rubião Jr Ginivaldo Victor R. Nascimento PO Box 584 Jacqueline Teixeira Caramori CEP 18618970 Luis Cuadrado Martin São Paulo Pasqual Barretti Brazil André Luis Balbi Email: gust...

This study presents an updated characterization of the Portuguese Web derived from a crawl of 48 million contents belonging to all media types (2.5 TB of data), performed in March, 2008. The resulting data was analyzed to characterize contents, sites and domains. This study was performed within the scope of the Portuguese Web Archive.

PURPOSE In Brazil, formal tools for the evaluation of spoken language are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to translate and adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument: Second Edition (PLAI-2). METHODS The process of translation and adaptation of this instrument was conducted in two stages - Stage 1: (1a) translation of the original version to Brazilian Portu...