Two nominalizing suffixes in brazilian portuguese: locality constraints on morphophonological realization

Text Generation for Brazilian Portuguese: the Surface Realization Task

Despite the growing interest in NLP focused on the Brazilian Portuguese language in recent years, its obvious counterpart – Natural Language Generation (NLG) – remains in that case a little-explored research field. In this paper we describe preliminary results of a first project of this kind, addressing the issue of surface realization for Brazilian Portuguese. Our approach, which may be partic...

Markedness, Segment Realization, and Locality in Spreading

An important goal of phonological theory has been the elucidation of "action at a distance." This term refers to processes, such as assimilations or dissimilations, in which the trigger segment and affected segment are not string-adjacent; there are segments that intervene, yet seem not to participate in the process. Transparency of this sort raises questions. How and why does it occur? What de...

Bare Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese

Nominalizing Quantifiers

Quantified expressions in natural language generally are taken to act like quantifiers in logic, which either range over entities that need to satisfy or not satisfy the predicate in order for the sentence to be true or otherwise are substitutional quantifiers. I will argue that there is a philosophically rather important class of quantified expressions in English that act quite differently, a ...

Verb Clustering for Brazilian Portuguese

Levin-style classes which capture the shared syntax and semantics of verbs have proven useful for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks and applications. However, lexical resources which provide information about such classes are only available for a handful of worlds languages. Because manual development of such resources is extremely time consuming and cannot reliably capture domain va...