NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese

SE Leal, MS Duran, CE Scarton, NS Hartmann… - Language Resources …, 2024 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to present and make publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a
computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in studies on discourse …

Syntactic annotation for Portuguese corpora: standards, parsers, and search interfaces

P Faria, C Galves, C Magro - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024 - Springer
In the last two decades, four Portuguese syntactically annotated corpora were built along the
lines initially defined for the Penn Parsed Historical Corpora (Santorini, 2016). They cover …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing multi-document summaries with sentence simplification

SB Silveira, A Branco - … on the International Conference on Artificial …, 2012 - lxsimba.di.fc.ul.pt
This paper investigates the usage of a sentence simplification module that aims at improving
automatically generated summaries built from a collection of texts. We describe an …

Rolling out text categorization for language learning assessment supported by language technology

A Branco, J Rodrigues, F Costa, J Silva… - … Processing of the …, 2014 - Springer
This paper is concerned with a tool that supports human experts in their task of classifying
text excerpts suitable to be used in quizzes for learning materials and as items of exams that …

Assessing automatic text classification for interactive language learning

A Branco, J Rodrigues, F Costa… - … on Information Society …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we discuss the design options for a language processing tool that supports
humans in their task of classifying text excerpts according to CEFR levels of language …

Universal grammatical dependencies for Portuguese with CINTIL data, LX processing and CLARIN support

A Branco, J Silva, L Gomes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The grammatical framework for the map** between linguistic form and meaning
representation known as Universal Dependencies relies on a non-constituency syntactic …

Neural text categorization with transformers for learning portuguese as a second language

R Santos, J Rodrigues, A Branco, R Vaz - Progress in Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
We report on the application of a neural network based approach to the problem of
automatically categorizing texts according to their proficiency levels and suitability for …

Combining a double clustering approach with sentence simplification to produce highly informative multi-document summaries

SB Silveira, A Branco - … on Information Reuse & Integration (IRI), 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for extractive multi-document summarization that explores a
two-phase clustering approach that, combined with a sentence simplification procedure …

Extração automática de conceitos a partir de textos em língua portuguesa

L Lopes - 2012 - tede2.pucrs.br
Essa tese descreve um processo para extrair conceitos de textos em lıngua portuguesa. O
processo proposto inicia com corpora de domınio linguisticamente anotados, e gera listas …

From greatest simplicity to full power: Research-Infrastructure-as-a-Service for language science and technology

L Gomes, A Branco, J Silva, R Branco - Language Resources and …, 2024 - Springer
While language processing services are key assets for the science and technology of
language, the possible ways under which they may be made available to the widest range of …