Background: application of an American early language test in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects. Aim: to compare the performance of normal Brazilian Portuguese and American English-speaking subjects on the Test of Early Language Development Third Edition (TELD-3). Method: participants of this study were 120 subjects of both genders, ranging in age from 2:00 to 7:11 years (20 subjects in ea...

Automatic spoken language identification is the problem of identifying the language being spoken from a sample of speech by an unknown speaker. Current language identification systems vary in their complexity. The systems that use higher level information have the best performance. Nevertheless, that information is hard to collect for each new language. In this work, we present a state of the a...

In this article we present an exploratory approach to enrich a WordNet-like lexical ontology with the synonyms present in a standard monolingual Portuguese dictionary. The dictionary was converted from PDF into XML and senses were automatically identified and annotated. This allowed us to extract them, independently of definitions, and to create sets of synonyms (synsets). These synsets were th...

INTRODUCTION Head and neck cancer is the sixth leading cause of death from cancer worldwide and its treatment may involve surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. The surgical procedure may cause mutilating sequelae, that can alter patient self-image. Thus, head and neck cancer is often connected to the negative stigma with decreased quality of life. Few studies assess the social stigma ...

Abstract This article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These concern, firstly, the peculiarities of Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, violence equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response was consolidated even before independences. Secondly, they relate to type d...

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...

Studies that use medical records are often impeded due to the information presented in narrative fields. However, recent studies have used artificial intelligence extract and process secondary health data from electronic records. The aim of this study was develop a neural network uses unstructured capture regarding symptoms, diagnoses, medications, conditions, exams, treatment. Data 30,000 pati...