As the lingua franca of the 21st century, English has become the main language for intercultural communication for those wanting to embrace globalization. In Portugal, it is the second language of most public and private domains influencing its culture and discourses. Language contact situations transform languages by the incorporations they make from other languages and Portugal has...

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...

Abstract This chapter provides an analysis of the level technological preparation Portuguese language for digital age, as well actions necessary consolidation a international communication with global projection.

This paper describes a language/accent verification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The two-stage system is designed to be used as a pre-processing module for the Portuguese Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed at INESC-ID. As the ASR system is applied everyday to transcribe the evening news from a Portuguese ...

Several efforts have been done towards the development of platforms that allow the translation of specific sign languages to the correspondent spoken language (and vice-versa). In this (demo) paper, we describe a freely available system that translates, in real time, European Portuguese (text) into Portuguese Sign Language (LGP), by using an avatar. We focus in how some linguistic elements are ...

This paper investigates the application of text classification methods to investigate diatopic variation in Portuguese journalistic texts. We compare the language used in Portuguese newspapers written in Brazil, Macau, and Portugal under the assumption that the more similar language varieties are, the more difficult it is for algorithms to discriminate between them. We present two sets of exper...

In Northern Uruguay, along the Brazilian border, Portuguese was the only language spoken by the Portuguese and the Brazilian settlers. It was only at the end of the last century that Spanish was imposed upon the Portuguese speaking communities through state educational policies and language planning. Spanish was then brought to the border areas as a prestigious language, and rural Portuguese wa...

Although there are increasing and significant ties between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, there is not much parallel corpora in the Chinese–Portuguese language pair. Both languages are very populous, with 1.2 billion native Chinese speakers and 279 million native Portuguese speakers, the language pair, however, could be considered as low-resource in terms of available parallel corpora...