Cognitive impairment is a common dysfunction after neurological injury. Cognitive assessment tools can help the therapist understand how impairments are affecting functional status and quality of life. Objective The aim of the study was to identify instruments for cognitive assessment that Occupational Therapists (OT) can use in clinical practice. Methods The instruments published in Englis...

In this work we present a recently acquired MRI database for European Portuguese. As a first example of possible studies, we present results on 2D and 3D analyses of European Portuguese nasals, particularly nasal vowels. This database will enable the extraction of 2D and/or 3D articulatory parameters as well as some dynamic information to include in articulatory synthesizers. It can also be use...

JUNE 27–28, 2002 UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO, PORTUGAL ORGANIZED BY THE PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION 12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition RECPAD-2002 TITLE RecPad2002 Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition June 27–28, 2002 APRP — Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões EDITION First Edition ISBN 972–789–067–9 (Proceedings in CD-...

This article presents a statistical study of WPT05, a text corpus derived from a crawl of the Portuguese Web performed in 2005. This corpus is a valuable resource for researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP). As one of the biggest publicly available collections of European Portuguese texts, we provide statistical analyses of the contents, covering the languages identified, the represent...

The present study is aimed at describing the semantic prosody of equivalent items in English and Portuguese. Semantic prosody is the connotation conveyed by the regular co-occurrence of lexical items, as revealed by the exploration of a computer-readable corpus. Although there are several studies dealing with semantic prosody in English, only one has looked at this issue contrasting English and...

Grapheme to phoneme (GTP) systems for languages such as English, German, and Korean have been shown to achieve better performance rates with the inclusion of a morpho-phonological preprocessing component. While semiautomatic and automatic GTP approaches for Portuguese continue to achieve steady gains, such algorithms do not take morphology into account, despite a growing need to do so, based in...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the path to expertise of Portuguese and USA basketball players according to their specific playing position (i.e. guards, forwards and centers). The information needed to achieve this purpose was collected through a validated questionnaire applied to 75 Portuguese and 45 USA players in the Portuguese League. This questionnaire provided detailed informati...

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of chronic psychosocial stress and resilience, including at a biological level (immune and neuroendocrine function) in Portuguese citizens with psychic anomaly/mental disorder. The sample aggregated 69 participants. It has been used the following psychometric instruments: 21-item depression, anxiety and stress scales (DASS-21), in the Portuguese...

This paper presents a new approach of building a language identification system using a specialized Phone Recognition system followed by Language Modeling (PRLM) to differentiate Portuguese varieties spoken in African Countries from European Portuguese. The system is designed to focus on exploiting the phonotactic information of a single discriminatively trained tokenizer for the specific pair ...

In this paper, we introduce TimeBankPT, a TimeML annotated corpus of Portuguese. It has been produced by adapting an existing resource for English, namely the data used in the first TempEval challenge. TimeBankPT is the first corpus of Portuguese with rich temporal annotations (i.e. it includes annotations not only of temporal expressions but also about events and temporal relations). In additi...