Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Tomar, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9727)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016, held in Tomar, Portugal, in July 2016. The 23 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: language applications, language processing, and language resources. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Extending VITHEA in Order to Improve Children’s Linguistic Skills....Pages 3-11 Automatic Classification of the Complexity of Nonfiction Texts in Portuguese for Early School Years....Pages 12-24 Improving Question-Answering for Portuguese Using Triples Extracted from Corpora....Pages 25-37 Applying Lexical-Conceptual Knowledge for Multilingual Multi-document Summarization....Pages 38-49 Domain-Specific Hybrid Machine Translation from English to Portuguese....Pages 50-61 Analysis of Temporal Adverbial Phrases for Portuguese–Chinese Machine Translation....Pages 62-73 Determining the Level of Clients’ Dissatisfaction from Their Commentaries....Pages 74-85 Comparing Approaches to Subjectivity Classification: A Study on Portuguese Tweets....Pages 86-94 TOPIE: An Open-Source Opinion Mining Pipeline to Analyze Consumers’ Sentiment in Brazilian Portuguese....Pages 95-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Evaluating Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease by Regression and Classification Methods in a Narrative Language Test in Portuguese....Pages 109-114 A Comparative Evaluation of QA Systems over List Questions....Pages 115-121 Characterizing Opinion Mining: A Systematic Mapping Study of the Portuguese Language....Pages 122-127 Finding Compositional Rules for Determining the Semantic Orientation of Phrases....Pages 128-133 Sentiment Analysis for Brazilian Portuguese over a Skewed Class Corpora....Pages 134-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Semantic Relation Extraction. Resources, Tools and Strategies....Pages 141-152 Extracting and Structuring Open Relations from Portuguese Text....Pages 153-164 Towards Keyphrase Assignment for Texts in Portuguese Language....Pages 165-176 Entity Linking with Distributional Semantics....Pages 177-188 Syntax Deep Explorer....Pages 189-201 Automatic Semantic Role Labeling on Non-revised Syntactic Trees of Journalistic Texts....Pages 202-212 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Improving Coreference Resolution with Semantic Knowledge....Pages 213-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Improving POS Tagging Across Portuguese Variants with Word Embeddings....Pages 227-232 Joining Forces for Multiword Expression Identification....Pages 233-238 A Construction Grammar Approach for Pronominal Clitics in European Portuguese....Pages 239-244 Investigating Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence Compression in Different Application Contexts for Portuguese....Pages 245-250 A Model for Textual Entailment Based on Linguistic Rules....Pages 251-255 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 LX-DSemVectors: Distributional Semantics Models for Portuguese....Pages 259-270 Making Virtue of Necessity: A Verb Lexicon....Pages 271-282 CONTO.PT: Groundwork for the Automatic Creation of a Fuzzy Portuguese Wordnet....Pages 283-295 Lexical Semantics Annotation for Enriched Portuguese Corpora....Pages 296-305 Crawling by Readability Level....Pages 306-318 Towards a Statistical-Enriched Corpus Containing Portuguese Collocations in Use: Reviewing Possible Extraction Tools....Pages 319-329 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 Automatic Generation of Internet Memes from Portuguese News Headlines....Pages 333-339 FrameNet-Based Automatic Suggestion of Translation Equivalents....Pages 340-346 Building a Question-Answering Corpus Using Social Media and News Articles....Pages 347-352 Front Matter....Pages 353-358 Evaluating Phonetic Spellers for User-Generated Content in Brazilian Portuguese....Pages 359-359 An Automatic Phonetic Aligner for Brazilian Portuguese with a Praat Interface....Pages 361-373 Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance....Pages 374-384 Back Matter....Pages 385-395 ....Pages 397-398