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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 8th International Conference, PROPOR 2008 Aveiro, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008, Proceedings | SpringerLink
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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

8th International Conference, PROPOR 2008 Aveiro, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008, Proceedings

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  1. António Teixeira
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  2. Vera Lúcia Strube Lima
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5190)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics and anaphora resolution; speech synthesis; machine learning applied to natural language processing; speech recognition and applications; natural language processing tools and applications; posters.

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Speech Analysis

    1. Event Detection by HMM, SVM and ANN: A Comparative Study

      • Carla Lopes, Fernando Perdigão
      Pages 1-10

    2. Frication and Voicing Classification

      • Luis M. T. Jesus, Philip J. B. Jackson
      Pages 11-20

    3. A Spoken Dialog System Speech Interface Based on a Microphone Array

      • Gustavo Esteves Coelho, António Joaquim Serralheiro, João Paulo Neto
      Pages 21-30

  3. Ontologies, Semantics and Anaphora Resolution

    1. PAPEL: A Dictionary-Based Lexical Ontology for Portuguese

      • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Diana Santos, Paulo Gomes, Nuno Seco
      Pages 31-40

    2. Comparing Window and Syntax Based Strategies for Semantic Extraction

      • Pablo Gamallo Otero
      Pages 41-50

    3. The Mitkov Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Portuguese

      • Amanda Rocha Chaves, Lucia Helena Machado Rino
      Pages 51-60

    4. Semantic Similarity, Ontologies and the Portuguese Language: A Close Look at the subject

      • Juliano Baldez de Freitas, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, Josiane Fontoura dos Anjos Brandolt
      Pages 61-70

  4. Speech Synthesis

    1. Boundary Refining Aiming at Speech Synthesis Applications

      • Monique V. Nicodem, Sandra G. Kafka, Rui Seara Jr., Rui Seara
      Pages 71-80

    2. Evolutionary-Based Design of a Brazilian Portuguese Recording Script for a Concatenative Synthesis System

      • Monique Vitório Nicodem, Izabel Christine Seara, Daiana dos Anjos, Rui Seara Jr., Rui Seara
      Pages 81-90

    3. DIXI – A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese

      • Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Carlos Mendes, Luís Figueira, Renato Cassaca, Céu Viana et al.
      Pages 91-100

    4. European Portuguese Articulatory Based Text-to-Speech: First Results

      • António Teixeira, Catarina Oliveira, Plínio Barbosa
      Pages 101-111

  5. Machine Learning Applied to Natural Language Processing

    1. Statistical Machine Translation of Broadcast News from Spanish to Portuguese

      • Raquel Sánchez Martínez, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Diamantino António Caseiro
      Pages 112-121

    2. Combining Multiple Features for Automatic Text Summarization through Machine Learning

      • Daniel Saraiva Leite, Lucia Helena Machado Rino
      Pages 122-132

    3. Some Experiments on Clustering Similar Sentences of Texts in Portuguese

      • Eloize Rossi Marques Seno, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes
      Pages 133-142

    4. Portuguese Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning

      • Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Ruy L. Milidiú, Raúl P. Rentería
      Pages 143-152

    5. Learning Coreference Resolution for Portuguese Texts

      • José Guilherme C. de Souza, Patricia Nunes Gonçalves, Renata Vieira
      Pages 153-162

  6. Speech Recognition and Applications

    1. Domain Adaptation of a Broadcast News Transcription System for the Portuguese Parliament

      • Luís Neves, Ciro Martins, Hugo Meinedo, João Neto
      Pages 163-171

    2. Automatic Classification and Transcription of Telephone Speech in Radio Broadcast Data

      • Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, João Neto
      Pages 172-181

    3. A Platform of Distributed Speech Recognition for the European Portuguese Language

      • João Miranda, João P. Neto
      Pages 182-191
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