In Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT) research, there are three main approaches: Surface Based, Pattern Based and Structure Based approach. In Structure Based EBMT system, such as SSTC approach [1], it has a problem that it relies on two syntax parsers to analyze the translation examples, but robust syntax parsers are not always available. On the other hand, Chinese and Portuguese belong ...

In this paper we assess to what extent the available Portuguese treebanks and available probabilistic parsers are suitable for outof-the-box robust parsing of Portuguese. We also announce the release of the best parser coming out of this exercise, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first robust parser widely available for Portuguese.

In this paper we report on the activity of the project Computational Processing of Portuguese (Processamento computacional do português) in what concerns providing access to Portuguese corpora through the Internet. One of its activities, the AC/DC project (Acesso a corpora/Disponibilização de Corpora, roughly "Access and Availability of Corpora") allows a user to query around 40 million words o...

Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection* Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese migrants as a whole ...

This paper reports on recent work in the context of the activities of the PoSTPort project aimed at porting a Broadcast News recognition system originally developed for European Portuguese to other varieties. Concretely, in this paper we have focused on porting to Brazilian Portuguese. The impact of some of the main sources of variability has been assessed, besides proposing solutions at the le...

Portuguese language is a multiple sounds language. Regarding the different possible accents, Portuguese-speaking way seems to be one of the language’s most relevant characteristics. Radio, as a sound media, is able to represent this diversity. There are several radio shows produced towards the Portuguese culture diaspora. In this paper, we will analyse radio shows produced in Brazil for the Por...

Juliana Macedo1,∗, Eduarda Carneiro4, Diana Ferreira4, António Verdelho5, Luís Pedro Afonso6, Joaquina Maurício7, Susana Maria Silva2,3, Mavilde Arantes2,3,4 1 Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal 2 Unit of Anatomy, Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal 3 Center for Health Technology and Services R...

We deal with the automated acquisition of a Spanish medical subword lexicon from an already existing Portuguese seed lexicon. Using two non-parallel monolingual corpora we determined Spanish lexeme candidates from Portuguese seed lexicon entries by heuristic cognate mapping. We validated the emergent lexical translation hypotheses by determining the similarity of fixed-window context vectors on...

This paper presents some aspects of the first Portuguese frequency lexicon extracted from a corpus of large dimensions. The Multifunctional Computational Lexicon of Contemporary Portuguese (henceforth MCL) rised from the necessity of filling a gap existent in the studies of the contemporary Portuguese. Until recently, the frequency lexicons of Portuguese were of very small dimensions, such as P...