Speech processing is a data-driven technology that relies on public corpora and associated resources. In contrast to languages such as English, there are few resources for Brazilian Portuguese (BP). This work describes efforts toward decreasing such gap and presents systems for speech recognition in BP using two public corpora: Spoltech and OGI-22. The following resources are made available: AT...

The goal of this study was to determine if the Phrases in Noise Test (PINT), which is recorded in English, could be adapted for the assessment of the hearing skills in children in the Brazilian population from the age of four-years old. The steps to adapt the PINT Brazilian Portuguese included translation of the stimuli, testing cultural equivalence (verify that children understand the stimuli)...

Anaphora resolution is an essential component of most NLP applications, from text understanding to Machine Translation. In this work we discuss a supervised machine learning approach to the problem, focusing on instances of anaphora ubiquitously found in a corpus of Brazilian Portuguese texts, namely, third-person pronominal references. Although still limited to a subset of the more general co-...

The availability of machine-readable bilingual linguistic resources is crucial not only for machine translation but also for other applications such as cross-lingual information retrieval. However, the building of such resources demands extensive manual work. This paper describes a methodology to build automatically bilingual dictionaries and transfer rules by extracting knowledge from word-ali...

PURPOSE to translate into Brazilian Portuguese and culturally adapt the Short Personal Experiences Questionnaire (SPEQ) to climacteric women. METHODS the original English version from the University of Melbourne, Australia, was initially translated into Portuguese and back-translated into English. A sociocultural adaptation of vocabulary and linguistic constructions was performed to facilitat...

Background: application of an American early language test in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects. Aim: to compare the performance of normal Brazilian Portuguese and American English-speaking subjects on the Test of Early Language Development Third Edition (TELD-3). Method: participants of this study were 120 subjects of both genders, ranging in age from 2:00 to 7:11 years (20 subjects in ea...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), an instrument developed in the United States and applied to a sample of Brazilian schoolchildren. The process included the translation of the original material from English into Portuguese by two bilingual psychiatrists and a back tra...

BACKGROUND Theory of mind (ToM) is a field of social cognition that deals with the individual's cognitive ability to interpret or infer the mental states of others based on previous knowledge. Recently, research has shown that this ability is compromised in patients with some psychopathologies, e.g., schizophrenia and autistic disorder. Investigators have also shown that deficits in ToM have im...