Providing On-line Access to Portuguese Language Resources: Corpora and Lexicons

Several Language Resources (LRs) for Portuguese, developed at the Center of Linguistics of the Lisbon University (CLUL), are available on-line at CLUL’s webpage: www.clul.ul.pt/english/sectores/projecto_rld.html. These LRs have been extracted from or developed based on the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese (CRPC), a monitor corpus containing, at the present, more than 300 million words, taken by sampling from several types of written text (literary, newspaper, technical, didactic, juridical, parlamentary, etc.) and spoken text (informal and formal), pertaining to national and regional varieties of Portuguese (including European, Brazilian, African and Asian Portuguese). The LRs available for on-line queries include: a) several subcorpora (written and spoken, tagged and untagged) compiled and extracted from CRPC for specific CLUL’s projects and now available for on-line queries; b) a published sample of “Português Fundamental”, a spoken CRPC subcorpus, available for texts download; c) a frequency lexicon extracted from a CRPC subcorpus available for both online queries and download. Other RLs available for Portuguese are also referred: C-ORAL-ROM Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages, a CD-ROM edition of a spoken corpus with text-to-sound alignment; the LE-PAROLE corpus; the LEPAROLE Lexicon and the SIMPLE Lexicon. 1 Institutions that have been giving finantial support to the CRPC: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica (JNICT) Programme Estímulo em Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Fundos Programáticos, Instituto Camões, União Latina, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Comissão das Comunidades Europeias LE-PAROLE Project. A net of public and private institutions is supplying data for CRPC (http://www.clul.ul.pt/english/frames.html). ON-LINE QUERIES TO EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE CORPORA Some CRPC subcorpora have been developed under specific projects at CLUL. These resources are available for on-line queries at CLUL's webpage, using CLUL’s concordancer CONCOR adapted to run on the Internet, as well as CLUL’s lemmatiser. When searching for a lemma or a wordform, it is possible to choose the corpus, to ask for concordances or frequencies, to sort the concordances results, to establish the context length and to obtain bibliographic references. The corpora available for on-line queries are the following: