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Creating a Lexicon-Grammar of Brazilian Portuguese Adjectives
Saldanha Martinez, Ryan; Baptista, Jorge; Vale, Oto AraújoThis paper aims to present an ongoing large-scale classification and description of Brazilian Portuguese adjectives. The 3,367 most frequent adjective lemmas in a reference corpus, corresponding to 92.09\% of the occurrences of adjectives, were classified into predicative and non-predicative. The former were further classified based on argument number (one or two) and type (noun phrase or clause), which led to ...
Enhancing Parsing of European Portuguese Verbal Idioms
Antunes, David; Baptista, Jorge; Mamede, NunoVerbal idioms (or verbal idiomatic expressions) are multiword expressions in which the main verb is distributionally frozen with one or more of its arguments (subject or complements). For the most part, they convey a non-compositional meaning that cannot be inferred from the individual meanings of their constituents when used separately.The primary goal of this project is the creation of a system capable of pro...
Exploring Artificial Intelligence in Language Teaching: Automatic Creation and ...
Baptista, Jorge; Reis, SóniaArtificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), has been transforming language education. This study explores the application of LLMs in the teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL), focusing on the automatic creation, classification, and validation of a corpus of short narratives based on Portuguese proverbs. The objectives are: (i) to automatically generate short narratives ...
Multiword Disjunctive Adverbs of Style in Portuguese
Muller, Izabela; Baptista, JorgeThis paper examines the syntactic properties of Portuguese multiword adverbs, focusing specifically on disjunctive adverbs of style (PS). Also known as enunciative, metalinguistic, or illocutionary adverbs, PS adverbs function as sentence-external modifiers, typically expressing the speaker’s attitude on a given statement. Our research has cataloged approximately 3,700 multiword adverbs in Brazilian and Europea...
Processamento automático de expressões idiomáticas do português europeu
Antunes, David; Baptista, Jorge; Mamede, NunoExpressões idiomáticas verbais são expressões multipalavra em que o verbo principal ´e distribucional mente fixo com um ou mais dos seus argumentos. O significado global destas expressões ´e, geralmente, não composicional, isto ´e, não pode ser regularmente inferido a partir do significado individual dos seus constituintes, quando usados separadamente. O principal objetivo deste trabalho ´e a construção de um s...
A elaboração de um léxico-gramática para os adjetivos do Português Brasileiro
Martinez, Ryan Saldanha; Baptista, Jorge; Vale, Oto AraújoEste artigo descreve uma classificação e descrição em larga escala, ainda em andamento, dos adjetivos do português brasileiro. Classificamos em predicativo ou n ̃ao predicativo os 3.367 lemas mais frequentes de adjetivo em um corpus de referência, o que corresponde a 92.09% das ocorrências de adjetivos nesse corpus. Os adjetivos predicativos receberam classificações adicionais com base no número (um ou dois) e ...
GOOD - Agroecología para las malas hierbas: construyendo una red de manejo agro...
Osuna, Maria D.; Ramos, María; Santiago, Ana de; Maya, Valentín; Baptista, Jorge; Groenewegen, Micha; Oliveira, Rui S.; Sousa, José P.Las hierbas adventicias afectan negativamente a la sostenibilidad de los sistemas agrícolas de la Unión Europea (UE), cuya gestión depende en gran medida de los herbicidas. La estrategia "de la granja a la mesa" de la UE tiene como objetivo promover la agroecología y la transición hacia sistemas agrícolas sostenibles y resilientes, incluyendo la reducción del uso de herbicidas. GOOD es un proyecto de 4 años de ...
Automatic Assessment of Text Complexity Levels in European Portuguese
Ribeiro, Eugénio; Mamede, Nuno; Baptista, JorgeThe assessment of text readability and the classification of texts by complexity levels is essential for language education and language-related industries that rely on effective communication. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) provides a widely recognized framework for classifying language proficiency levels. This framework can be used not only to assess the proficiency of learner...
Comparison of AMR annotations across languages: problems and solutions
Baptista, Jorge; Reis, Sónia; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, JoãoThis study presents an adaptation of the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) framework for European Portuguese. This adaptation, referred to as Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR), was deemed necessary to address specific challenges posed by the grammar of the language, as well as various linguistic issues raised by the current version of AMR annotation guidelines. Some of these aspects stemmed from the ...
Differentiating Brazilian and European Portuguese Multiword Adverbs
Muller, Izabela; Mamede, Nuno; Baptista, JorgeThe identification of Portuguese multiword adverbs in texts such as de fininho ‘sneakily’ or em plena luz do dia ‘in broad daylight’ is an essential part of determining the meaning units forming a text. This paper explores the boundaries of adverbial multiword expressions in European and Brazilian Portuguese varieties. The primary purpose is to determine the frequency and distribution of the expressions in the ...