This paper reports the results of the WordNet.PTglobal project, an extension of WordNet.PT to all Portuguese varieties. Profiting from a theoretical model of high level explanatory adequacy and from a convenient and flexible development tool, WordNet.PTglobal achieves a rich and multipurpose lexical resource, suitable for contrastive studies and for a vast range of language-based applications c...

The Portuguese Ministry of Education has intervened in the Technologies and Information Systems (TIS) of the educational system with a Technological Plan for Education (TPE). The TPE is the Portuguese initiative for ICT in education, and is an intervention in three axis Technology axis,

This work presents an evaluation of the Brazilian Portuguese LIWC dictionary for Sentiment Analysis. This evaluation is conducted by comparison against two other sentiment resources for Portuguese language: Opinion Lexicon and SentiLex. We conducted an intrinsic and an extrinsic evaluations and show how LIWC dictionary could be used in sentiment analysis projects.

This paper presents the adaptation of an Entity Centric Model for Portuguese coreference resolution, considering 10 named entity categories. The model was evaluated on named e using the HAREM Portuguese corpus and the results are 81.0% of precision and 58.3% of recall overall, the resulting system is freely available.

Programme Factors of Competitiveness (" Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade ") and by Portuguese founds through the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (University of Aveiro) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (" FCT–Fundção para a Ciência e a Tecnologia "), within project PEst-C/MAT/UI4106/2011 with COMPETE number FCOMP-01-0124...

Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to take advantage of the great amount of information existent in the World Wide Web. Since Portuguese is one of the most used languages in the web and the web itself is a constantly growing source of updated information, this kind of techniques are quite interesting and promising.

In this paper we describe the annotation of COMPARA, currently the largest post-edited parallel corpora which includes Portuguese. We describe the motivation, the results so far, and the way the corpus is being annotated. We also provide the first grounded results about syntactical ambiguity in Portuguese. Finally, we discuss some interesting problems in this connection.

Citation: Ramalho SP, Lins L, Bueno-Pardo J, Cordova EA, Amisi JM, Lampadariou N, Vanreusel A and Cunha MR (2017) Deep-Sea Mega-Epibenthic Assemblages from the SW Portuguese Margin (NE Atlantic) Subjected to Bottom-Trawling Fisheries. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:350. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00350 Deep-Sea Mega-Epibenthic Assemblages from the SW Portuguese Margin (NE Atlantic) Subjected to Bottom-Trawlin...

Background: tense marking by deaf signers, in the Brazilian Sign Language and in written Portuguese. Aim: to analyze verbal tense inflection in written Portuguese, to verify the relationship between the performance in using verbal tense inflexion and the educational status, and to verify tense marking in the production of sentences in the Brazilian sign language and in written Portuguese. Metho...

UNLABELLED Screening Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) allows early interventions, which may alter the natural course of the disease, including cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Screening for Occult Renal Disease (SCORED) is questionnaire with nine questions with different weights, and predicts a 20% chance for CKD if a individual score > 4 points. AIM Translate to Portuguese, perform the ad...