In this article we describe the creation and distribution of the first publicly available word embeddings for Portuguese. Our embeddings are evaluated on their own and also compared with the original English models on a well-known analogy task. We gathered a large Portuguese corpus of 1.7 billion tokens, developed the first distributional semantic analogies test set for Portuguese, and proceede...

Based on the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English[1], the Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese[2] consists of an electronic annotated corpus composed of prose, originally written in Portuguese by native speakers of European Portuguese (henceforth EP) born between the 16th and 19th centuries. The present annotation system to be applied to Portuguese has been developed in t...

© ThriftyTorrent: Cheap P2P software patch distribution for enterprise networks Miranda Mowbray, Chris Peltz, Cristiano Costa, Nazareno Andrade, Katia Saikoski HP Laboratories HPL-2009-80

BACKGROUND Information regarding the health status of migrants compared to subjects who remain in the country of origin is scarce. We compared the levels and management of the main cardiovascular risk factors between Portuguese living in Porto (Portugal) and Portuguese migrants living in Lausanne (Switzerland). METHODS Cross-sectional studies conducted in Porto (EPIPorto, 1999 to 2003, n = 11...

The Per-Fide project is a joint collaboration between researchers at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho, Portugal. The acronym Per-Fide stands for Portuguese (P) in parallel with 6 languages: English (E), Russian (R), French (F), Italian (I), German/Deutsch (D) and Spanish/ Español (E). First, we expound on the role of the Per-Fide ...

The present study examines the role of the relative transparency of Portuguese and Spanish orthographies in schoolchildren’s word recognition procedures. Both Portuguese and Spanish may be considered as transparent orthographies. However, mappings at the grapheme–phoneme level are more consistent in Spanish than in Portuguese. Four groups of Portuguese and Spanish children from grades 1, 2, 3, ...

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

BACKGROUND No previous study has examined the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and explored the influence of immigration status and acculturation on overweight/obesity among the Portuguese immigrants to Luxembourg. Our objectives were to (1) compare the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors between native Luxembourgers and Portuguese immigrants, (2) examine the relationship between...

This paper describes the collaborative creation of a corpus with coreference annotation for Portuguese. The annotation was performed using the coreference annotation CORP, and the editing tool CorrefVisual. The texts were automatically annotated and manually revised by Portuguese speakers. As a result a new corpus for coreference studies was produced for Portuguese.

This paper presents Folheador, an online service for browsing through Portuguese semantic relations, acquired from different sources. Besides facilitating the exploration of Portuguese lexical knowledge bases, Folheador is connected to services that access Portuguese corpora, which provide authentic examples of the semantic relations in context.