This work describes how we used AnCora-Nom, a Spanish nominalization lexicon, to extend NomLex-PT, a lexical resource for Portuguese, originally based on the English NomLex lexicon and fully integrated to OpenWordNet-PT, our freely available Portuguese WordNet. The complete Spanish lexicon, which contains 1,655 entries, was translated to Portuguese and then compared to our previous data. Furthe...

Mr. Editor, As the authors of the article “Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the vitiligo-specific health-related quality of life instrument (VitiQoL) into Brazilian Portuguese”, we would like to publish the translated version of VitiQol in Portuguese (Chart 1 and 2).1 This instrument has only been published in English, and we have been contacted by other health professio...

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...

This study compares canonical and phonetic articulation rates of European Spanish and Portuguese based on radio podcasts. The main goal of the investigation is to establish the degree of syllable deletion based on vowel/consonant elision in both languages. The results show that Portuguese and Spanish speakers exhibit no difference in canonical articulation rate but Portuguese speakers reduce sy...

This paper presents a system for real-time, open-domain question answering on the Web of documents written in Portuguese, prepared to handle factual questions and available as a freely accessible online service. In order to deliver candidate answers to input questions phrased in Portuguese, this system resorts to a number of shallow processing tools and question answering techniques that are sp...

AMA Rakowska A, Rudnicka L, Olszewska M, et al. Alopecia areata. Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations of the Polish Society Dermatology. Part 2: Treatment. Dermatology Review/Przegląd Dermatologiczny. 2023. doi:10.5114/dr.2023.127705. APA Rakowska, A., Rudnicka, L., Olszewska, M., Bergler-Czop, B., Czuwara, J., & Brzezińska-Wcisło, L. (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/dr.2023.127705 Chicago...

AMA Mirecka-Rola A, Kowalczyk-Domagała M, Brodzikowska-Pytel Kansy Brzezińska-Rajszys G, Ziółkowska L. Echocardiographic features in infants with dilated cardiomyopathy treated reversible pulmonary banding: a preliminary single-centre experience. Pediatria Polska - Polish Journal of Paediatrics. 2023. doi:10.5114/polp.2023.128600. APA Mirecka-Rola, A., Kowalczyk-Domagała, M., Brodzikowska-Pytel...

AMA Rakowska A, Rudnicka L, Olszewska M, et al. Alopecia areata. Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations of the Polish Society Dermatology. Part 1. Dermatology Review/Przegląd Dermatologiczny. 2023. doi:10.5114/dr.2023.127704. APA Rakowska, A., Rudnicka, L., Olszewska, M., Bergler-Czop, B., Czuwara, J., & Brzezińska-Wcisło, L. (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/dr.2023.127704 Chicago Adriana, L...

OBJECTIVE To translate the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ) to Portuguese and adapt it for use in Brazil. METHODS Cross-cultural adaptation of a quality of life questionnaire requires a translated version that is conceptually equivalent to the original version and culturally acceptable in the target country. The protocol used consisted of the translation of the LCQ to Portuguese by three B...

This paper is concerned with mood distribution in European and Brazilian Portuguese. Although, in many cases, these two varieties do not differ as regards the selected mood, there are exceptions in some contexts. The variations involve rather different constructions, at first sight suggesting a chaotic picture. However, if one assumes that mood is associated with the expression of an attitude t...