BACKGROUND Tinnitus can cause damage to the life quality of patients. The assessment of to what extent a patient's quality of life has been affected by tinnitus can be useful to understand the limitations imposed by this symptom. Also it can be useful for therapeutic programming and for the verification of therapy effectiveness (pre and post treatment evaluation). AIM To culturally adapt the ...

Rock anisotropy plays an important role in engineering behavior of rocks. Slates are anisotropic rocks which have long been used for gable roof, floor tiles, borrow materials, and other purposes. The slates studied in this research are calcareous and have a porphyro-lepidoblastic texture. To determine the role of the anisotropy on the tensile strength and fracture pattern, two variables includi...

Colloquial English (CE) as found in television programs or typical conversations is different than text found in technical manuals, newspapers and books. Phrases tend to be shorter and less sophisticated. In this paper, we look at some of the theoretical and implementational issues involved in translating CE. We present a fully automatic large-scale multilingual natural language processing syst...

This study aims to apply the proposal of a connectionist version of Optimality Theory (Bonilha, 2004) in order to analyze the data which were previously considered in Alves (2004), regarding the acquisition, by Brazilian Portuguese speakers, of English complex codas which characterize the English morpheme “-ed”. The analysis which was carried out in Alves (2004), developed through the standard ...

For our fifth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, the first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list along with a light stemming procedure for the Hungarian, Bulgarian and Portuguese (Brazilian) languages. Our second objective was to obtain a better picture of the relative merit of various search engines when processing documents in those languages. To do so w...

The renewed interest in grapheme to phoneme conversion (G2P), due to the need of developing multilingual speech synthesizers and recognizers, suggests new approaches more efficient than the traditional rule&exception ones. A number of studies have been performed to investigate the possible use of machine learning techniques to extract phonetic knowledge in a automatic way starting from a lexico...

For our fifth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list as well as a light stemming procedure for the Hungarian, Bulgarian and Portuguese (Brazilian) languages. Our second objective was to obtain a better picture of the relative merit of various search engines when processing documents in those languages. To do so w...

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims at identifying the correct sense of a word in a given context. WSD is an important task for other applications as Machine Translation or Information Retrieval. For English, WSD has been widely studied, obtaining different performances. Analyzing by morphosyntactic class, Verb is the hardest class to be disambiguated. Verbs are an important class and help to ...

Discourse parsing is an integral part of understanding information flow and argumentative structure in documents. Most previous research has focused on inducing and evaluating models from the English RST Discourse Treebank. However, discourse treebanks for other languages exist, including Spanish, German, Basque, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. The treebanks share the same underlying linguistic...

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale in Exclusive for use Brazilian-Portuguese context. METHODS: process involved translation from original English into Brazilian Portuguese by two qualified and independent translators. Both translations were synthesized single version that back-translated English. An expert co...