Work

Universal Dependencies for Portuguese

Year: 2017

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper describes the creation of a Portuguese corpus following the guidelines of the Universal Dependencies Framework.Instead of starting from scratch, we invested in a conversion process from the existing Portuguese corpus, called Bosque.The conversion was done by applying a context-sensitive set of Constraint Grammar rules to its original deep linguistic analysis, which was carried out by the parser PALAVRAS, with some additional manual corrections.Universal Dependencies offer the promise of greater parallelism between languages, a plus for researchers in many areas.We report the challenges of dealing with Portuguese, a Romance language, hoping that our experience will help others.

Source: University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark)

Authors: Rademaker, Alexandre, Chalub, Fabricio, Real, Livy, Freitas, Cláudia, Bick, Eckhard; id_orcid 0000-0002-5505-4861, de Paiva, Valeria

Institutions: IBM Research - Brazil, IBM (Brazil), Universidade de São Paulo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, University of Southern Denmark, Nuance Communications (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2773818914

FWCI: 1.211

Cites: 11

Cited by: 62

Related to: 10