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Automatization of proficiency diagnosis: annotation and versatility of resource...
Amaro, Raquel; Correia, Susana; Gramacho, Carolina; Mendes, AmáliaThe automatic diagnosis and analysis of the production of foreign language learners can contribute to overcome linguistic barriers that hinder the integration of migrant populations. The richness and complexity of the phenomena observed in this context and the multiplicity of objectives served by automatic analysis tools demonstrate the inevitability of manual annotation of data and the importance of producing ...
“POR Nível”: Construction and validation of a placement test for Portuguese as ...
Gramacho, Carolina; Madeira, Ana; Martins, Cláudia; Alexandre, Nélia; Pinto, Jorge; Correia, SusanaPlacement tests are a form of assessment that aims at placing students in appropriate levels. Placement tests must, therefore, be based on validity and reliability arguments to ensure appropriateness and consistency of assessment. Despite the growing interest in Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL), both nationally and internationally, to our knowledge there is no validated placement test that informs on gene...
The agreement with post-nominal adjectives in coordinate nominal expressions wi...
Gramacho, CarolinaThis paper provides a corpus-based study of agreement with post-nominal adjectives in coordinate nominal expressions with only one determiner in European Portuguese (EP). It aims to provide clues to understand the patterns of agreement that contradict the predictions of our previous studies in which we made a distinction between two constructions corresponding to the same categorial linear outputs: (a) those as...
Agreement in coordinated nominal expressions with only one determiner
Colaço, Madalena; Gramacho, CarolinaThis paper provides a corpus-based study of agreement in coordinate nominal expressions with only one determiner in European Portuguese. The data presented in our previous work attested the use of these expressions in written discourse, contradicting what is stated in some grammars. A distinction between two constructions is established: (a) those in which the coordinate nominal expression refers only one entit...