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The purpose of this paper was to compare the accuracy of different simulation models of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. There were 12 (2 x 3 x 2) models altogether (2 data sets of previous matches, 3 sets of variables and models where the data either satisfied the assumptions of linear regression or not). One set of previous data consisted of 440 matches from all international tournaments played since...

The assumptions of statistical procedures are enforced more rigorously in some disciplines than in others. Previous research into the accuracy of predictive modelling techniques has provided examples where models based on data that violate the relevant assumptions is greater than that of models where the assumptions were satisfied. The purpose of this investigation was to develop two sets of 4 ...

This paper describes the 7x1­PT corpus that contains a set of tweets, in Portuguese, posted during the match Germany vs Brazil at the FIFA World Cup 2014. We describe data collection, cleaning and organization, and also the current stage of the linguistic annotation of this corpus.